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16. You might want to check the doctrine of "Due Proportion" before you make such statements

Vatican teaching does not support euthanasia - a treatment to end life - but can support the withdrawal of treatment if it would be "morally disproportionate" to continue treatment.

The Church does not explicitly address the morality of a "do-not-resuscitate order," but it still uses the distinction between "ordinary" or "proportionate" (=morally obligatory) and "extraordinary" or "disproportionate" (=morally not obligatory) treatments. Moreover the Church clearly teaches that it is morally wrong to impose on anyone the obligation to accept treatments that impose undue burdens on him, his family, and the wider community or to accept treatments that do not offer reasonable benefits or are useless or futile. This is the teaching found both in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's May, 1980 Vatican Declaration on Euthanasia ("Iura et Bona&quot , Part IV on "Due Proportion in the Use of Remedies," and in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care

From Zenit - the world seen from Rome the opinion being that of William E. May. Professor Emeritus. Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology. B.A., M.A., Philosophy, The Catholic University of America. Ph.D. (retired) and Senior Fellow at the Culture of Life Foundation