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The Nature of the Human Person is a body-soul unity; Spiritual ends are natural to the Human Person

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Euthanasia for Dementia Patients on the Increase.

“If we stay on the current path there will likely be euthanasia of human beings with later-stage dementia in the near future. In some ways, the neglect this population already experiences isn’t much better than euthanasia — isolated from the rest of us and kept ‘docile’ with various drugs in what are essentially warehouses where they wait to die alone.” Charles Comasy, Fordham University

And then, this, Another solution for dementia: ‘advance directive implants’; an implant which automatically triggers a lethal drug at the onset of dementia.

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  1. As a Social Worker in a nursing home, I had the privilege of Interacting with beautiful souls at all stages of Dementia/Alzheimers on a daily basis. Many of them had healthy bodies, requiring no medications at all. But If you look deep into their eyes you will see Jesus and be transformed by their presence.
    We are all THE BODY OF CHRIST

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