VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- Pope John Paul II is being fed through a nasal tube in an effort to boost his calorie intake, the Vatican says.
"To improve his calorific intake and promote an efficient recovery of his strength, nutrition via the positioning of a nasal-gastric tube has begun," Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a statement released Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...day/index.html
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Since the Pope is a firm believer in the afterlife and God - wouldnt it make sense that he would not want to be on the feeding tube? I know the church has a problem with suicide or a willingness to die - but it only would take a bishop to seal his fate since he cant talk or be understood.
What if the Pope got the the point of not being able to recognize anyone and becomes a vegetable himself - would they still keep him alive?
I say lets see what happens when we starve the Pope how the courts will demand we keep him alive. Im sorry but hearing daily news update as CNN turns into that nasty funeral home director in A Christmas Carol who waited outside of Marley's room.
this Schiavo debate over a persons right to life and death - or for lack of a better term - assisted suicide. At least Dr. Kevorkian has a more humane way of doing it. If we are going to allow people to die - at least give them the dignity of a quick end rather than a painful slow death.
"To improve his calorific intake and promote an efficient recovery of his strength, nutrition via the positioning of a nasal-gastric tube has begun," Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a statement released Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...day/index.html
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Since the Pope is a firm believer in the afterlife and God - wouldnt it make sense that he would not want to be on the feeding tube? I know the church has a problem with suicide or a willingness to die - but it only would take a bishop to seal his fate since he cant talk or be understood.
What if the Pope got the the point of not being able to recognize anyone and becomes a vegetable himself - would they still keep him alive?
I say lets see what happens when we starve the Pope how the courts will demand we keep him alive. Im sorry but hearing daily news update as CNN turns into that nasty funeral home director in A Christmas Carol who waited outside of Marley's room.
this Schiavo debate over a persons right to life and death - or for lack of a better term - assisted suicide. At least Dr. Kevorkian has a more humane way of doing it. If we are going to allow people to die - at least give them the dignity of a quick end rather than a painful slow death.
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