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Video: The Alvarez Family Story

Sylvia and Serena Alvarez share the inspiring story of Deacon Sal Alvarez—how he fought for justice throughout his life, working for farmers' rights, advocating for access to health care for Latinos, and—near the end of his life—fighting against...

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Bishops' Statement

To Live Each Day with Dignity

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Church Documents and Teachings

Samaritanus bonus: on the care of persons in the critical and terminal phases of life, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, September 22, 2020 (en español)
To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide, USCCB, June 2011 (en español)
Responses to Certain Questions Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 1, 2007 (en español)
Commentary on Nutrition and Hydration, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 1, 2007 (en español)
Address of John Paul II to the Participants in the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State, March 20, 2004 (en español)
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Seventh Edition, USCCB, November 2025

Fact Sheets

Assisted Suicide Laws in Oregon and Washington: What Safeguards?, June 2025
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Beyond Terminal Illness, February 19, 2018
Top Reasons to Oppose Assisted Suicide, July 12, 2017
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: From Voluntary to Involuntary, June 28, 2017
Suicide and Assisted Suicide: The Role of Depression, June 1, 2017
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Threat to Improved Palliative Care, April 3, 2017
Q & A on Nutrition and Hydration for Patients in a "Vegetative State", September, 2007

Articles and Publications

Life Matters: Doctor-Assisted Death, by William L. Toffler, MD, 2012 (en español)
Life Matters: To the End of Our Days, 2011 (en español)
Caring for Each Other, Even Unto Death, by Marie T. Hilliard, PhD, 2010 (en español)
Assisted Suicide: Death by “Choice”?, by Rita Marker, Esq., 2009 (en español)
John Paul II: Dying with Dignity, by Rev. J. Daniel Mindling, O.F.M. Cap., 2005 (en español)
Human Dignity in the 'Vegetative' State, by Richard Doerflinger, 2004 (en español)
Physician-assisted Suicide: The Wrong Approach to End of Life Care, by F. Michael Gloth, III, M.D., 2003 (en español)
Hope for the Journey: Meaningful Support for the Terminally Ill, by Kathy Kalina, RN, CRNH, 2001 (en español)
False Freedom and the Culture of Death, by Richard Doerflinger, 2000 (en español)

Columns and Commentary

Dependent, by Aaron Matthew Weldon, Life Issues Forum, March 13, 2015 (en español)
The Public Relations of Death, by Richard Doerflinger, Life Issues Forum, January 16, 2015 (en español)
Are We Not Dying Fast Enough? by Tom Grenchik, Life Issues Forum, August 29, 2014 (en español)
Seeing People as God sees Them, by Tom Grenchik, Life Issues Forum, October 5, 2007

Testimony and Letters

Comments on CMS Request for Information on Assisted Suicide in Hospice Care, June 1, 2026
Support Letter for H.Con.Res 68, February 2022
On the Pain Relief Promotion Act, Letter to Senate, Richard M. Doerflinger, November 3, 2000
Pain Relief Promotion Act, Letter to Senate, Gail Quinn, October 4, 2000
On Pain Relief Promotion Act of 2000, Testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee, April 25, 2000
Urgently Needed Legislation on the Pain Relief Promotion Act, Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee, Cardinal Keeler, April 5, 2000

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