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Bloodless Means

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Bloodless Means
A term referring to ‘non-messy’ ways of committing suicide—including by toxic substances (overdose), drowning, hanging, suffocation, and carbon monoxide poisoning—which do not violate the mucocutaneous surface and are thus bloodless


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The view which is expressed in the Catechism is that "if bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
Bishop Rodriguez concluded his letter with a citation from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human life against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority must limit itself to such means because they are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is equally clear: "If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means.
 
 
 
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