“Sooner or later it should be possible to find the remedy not only for this or that illness, but for our ultimate destiny – for death itself. Surely the medicine of immortality must exist. Today too, the search for a source of healing continues. Modern medical science strives, if not exactly to exclude death, at least to eliminate as many as possible of its causes, to postpone it further and further, to prolong life …show more content…
Are they morally ethical? This is the question that the church is face with, is this morally ethical. To be morally ethical, according to the catholic church to be morally correct is to understand that all moral acts consists of three parts. The object or what we do, the goal or intention, and the situation of the circumstance.
Inorder for an individual to be morally good the object or what the individual is doing must be objectively good. The end goal or the intent of the act plays a huge part of it, in order for and act to be morally the intention of the act needs to be morally good, or for the right reason for example: if someone was planning on pouring water on their friends head because they do not like them but ends up putting out a fire. In this case the intention was morally bad they intended to humiliate their friend the ending was good but the initial goal was not morally …show more content…
This is the third definition and this one is showing more of a healthy lifestyle rather than just prolonging your life by medication this one is also considered acceptable to the Catholic church because and is also one of The Commandments This coincides with the fifth commandment Thou shalt not kill the fifth commandment focuses on human dignity or the priority of life. it relates to it due to the fact that you are not to kill others but that it also includes yourself there for keeping yourself healthy and respecting Your Body by not consuming too much alcohol or smoking or hurting yourself in any way goes with the fifth commandment which coincides with this definition because it is keeping yourself healthy and alive for as long as you naturally can without means of replacing one's body parts or