Monday February 25, 2002

CHURCH IN NETHERLANDS FORBIDS CATHOLIC BURIALS FOR THOSE PLANNING EUTHANASIA

AMSTERDAM, February 25, 2002, (LSN.ca) - The Catholic Church in the Netherlands is drawing up pastoral guidelines on dealing with cases of requests for Catholic burial for people who are planning to undergo voluntary euthanasia. Catholic News Service (CNS) reports that the Dutch church spokesman for the Hertogenbosch Diocese Micheil Savelsbergh confirmed that the Catholic Church cannot give religious burials to people who planned to be euthanized.

Savelsbergh told CNS in a Feb 21 interview that church funerals could be given to people who already had died from euthanasia, but not for patients whose deaths still were being planned that way.

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