Oh, The Irony....
The irony over the death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian is certainly not lost on me. The 83 year old advocate of physician assisted suicide died of natural causes last night.
What a mystery. May God have mercy on his soul.
I wonder if he was ready to meet God, to meet The Truth? Would Doctor (should we even refer to him as such?) Kevorkian be able to tell God that he felt he had a better plan to "alleviate human suffering"?
hmmm.....
But let us not be led astray by seeming arguments for "compassion". People do not need a law to be free to commit suicide, as we well know. What we must understand is that "physician assisted suicide laws" are merely forerunners for more insidious things to come.
We must know the Truth and what the Church teaches and what true compassion really is.
Read more about this from author Mark Shea
I wonder if he was ready to meet God, to meet The Truth? Would Doctor (should we even refer to him as such?) Kevorkian be able to tell God that he felt he had a better plan to "alleviate human suffering"?
hmmm.....
But let us not be led astray by seeming arguments for "compassion". People do not need a law to be free to commit suicide, as we well know. What we must understand is that "physician assisted suicide laws" are merely forerunners for more insidious things to come.
We must know the Truth and what the Church teaches and what true compassion really is.
Read more about this from author Mark Shea
Comments
Suffering can be our "wordless" prayer up to God to atone for abominations perpetrated by the "Culture of Death". Dr. Kevorkian and his followers do not understand and see that it is the death of the soul which we should be most concerned with. Christ, in his suffering and death and his mother, Our Blessed Lady in her "silent martyrdom" should be the path we are also willing to follow when it is presented to us
in whatever form. This does not mean we should not avail ourselves
of what modern medicine can do for us. If if does come to the point that suffering has to be endured,however, then we must embrace it in the spirit of being a true follower of Christ.
While maybe their mental status could very well be called into question, I know it goes deeper than that. Euthanasia has got to be the other side of the face of pure evil. One woman in the film said, "..then I get to decide when my life is no longer worth living". I thought of Archbishop Sheen's "Life is Worth Living" and I couldn't help but start crying. Another time, a volunteer with a "compassion" group told this woman that the notion of suffering is a flawed concept. It was a good thing to just take yourself out so that no one, including yourself, would have to deal with you. I thought, I guess that would seem true when you have nothing to hope for. When you have no sense of the love of God or His love for you. I mean, even as I type this, the tears come to my eyes to think that someone who is dying would think that there is no validity in their suffering or their life, their very creation. It begs the questions, then why have you lived at all? Why were you ever here?
Talk about flawed reasoning. Never a thought is given in all of this, it seems, to the dignity of the acts of serving someone who is in their end of days. Next to abortion, I can't think of anything more heartbreaking. And if I feel this way - a perfect stranger - how must Our Lord feel? Hopefully - hopefully- Kevorkian realized that his life, even in all the horrors he committed, was still valued by his Creator. I pray God has mercy on his soul. May God have mercy on us all.