” “” “”We approve of the fact the National Council passed an unanimous judgement on the liability to punishment of and therefore the ban on killing on demand, by condemning the incitement to suicide as ethically reprehensible and rejecting all profit-orientated forms of accompaniment to death”: this is the judgment passed by card. Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops Conference, in a release of 13th July about the position taken by the German national ethic council about death and the relation with dying people. “Nevertheless added the cardinal the outstanding fact is that unanimous agreement had never been reached about any other essential issues, and the ethical and juridical grounds come from many different points of view and opinions”. “The proposal to publicly tolerate or promote an institutionalised assistance to suicide went on Lehmann must be firmly rejected. Accepting such proposals would take off society its role of protecting suicidal people, by giving suicide a semblance of normality and social acceptance”. According to the president of German Bishops, “everyone is responsible for making dying people more confident in the assistance they are entitled to. This reliable support must be guaranteed to dying people by the law and the health care services as well”.
