The Rector’s College of the Catholic University of Lublin: the activities of the Plymouth hospital are a slow euthanasia of the Pole

The Rector’s College of the Catholic University of Lublin expresses its solidarity with the patient and his family, which fights to keep him alive and to bring him to a hospital in Poland. “We fully identify with the position of the President of the Polish Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, who addressed a letter to Card. Vincent Nichols, President of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, to make efforts to save the life of a Pole from the hospital in Plymouth”- emphasize the authorities of the Catholic University of Lublin.

Działania podejmowane w szpitalu w Plymouth wobec Polaka, który trafił tam z urazem mózgu, nie mają nic wspólnego z medycyną, ale są celowym pozbawianiem życia ciężko chorego człowieka i przejawiają znamiona powolnej eutanazji – podkreśla Kolegium Rektorskie @KUL_Lublin

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The Rector and Vice-Rectors of the University remind that, according to the Hippocratic Oath, the primary task of doctors is to save every person’s life, even in a very difficult condition and when the prognosis is not favourable. “According to the reports that we hear, in the case of the Pole hospitalized in Plymouth, this principle is grossly violated. In this situation, we cannot talk about of the so-called therapeutic persistence, but about deliberately killing a seriously ill man. It is a breach of his fundamental right”- emphasizes the Rector’s College of the Catholic University of Lublin.

The authorities of the Catholic University of Lublin also remind us that St. John Paul II indicated in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae that nowadays “the temptation grows to have recourse to euthanasia, that is, to take control of death and bring it about before its time”.

The Pope emphasized in the Evangelium Vitae that “in reality what might seem logical and humane, when looked at more closely is seen to be senseless and inhumane. Here we are faced with one of the more alarming symptoms of the ‘culture of death’, which is advancing above all in prosperous societies, marked by an attitude of excessive preoccupation with efficiency and which sees the growing number of elderly and disabled people as intolerable and too burdensome” – add the Rector and Vice-Rectors of the Catholic University of Lublin.

Source: KUL