(ANSA) - Rome, May 26 - Newly elected president of the
Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti
said "waste is perhaps such for the world but not in the eyes of
God, there is no suffering or illness, no usefulness or false
dignity, that can legitimise the suppression of a human life",
in his message to the conference The Culture of Treatment,
promoted by the Science and Life Catholic association in Rome
today. Bassetti was speaking amid a heightened debate on
end-of-life issues in Italy sparked by several trips to
Switzerland to commit assisted suicide. A bill on living wills
is before parliament.
No illness justifies ending life - Bassetti (2)
No usefulness or false dignity, no one can become 'waste'