A Topic of Moral Theology
Ordinary and extraordinary means of preserving life
What one is bound to do to keep alive.
The works themselves ask 5 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
end of life care · feeding tube · life support · refusing treatment · ventilator (ed.)
In the index as Death · Killing of self · Accused Person · Body · Care · Castration · Danger · Desire · Health · Macerations · Mutilation · Obligation · Ovaries · Ovariotomy · Remedies · Suicide · The infirm · Vasectomy · Violence · Virgin · Virginity
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. V, Chapter I. Suicide, n. 5 — We are obliged to take ordinary means to preserve our lives, for to do otherwise would be virtually to commit suicide. There is no obligation to take extraordinary, unusual, or very painful or expensive means to preserve… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Section B: On Justice and …, Ch. I, Question Two: On the Killing of Oneself, nn. 352, 353 & 354 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. VI, On the Fifth Precept of th…, Chapter I. On Killing Oneself, or on Suicide, nn. 264, 264, Q. 2, 264, Q. 3, 264, Q. 4 & 264, Q. 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Suicide and the Preservation of Life — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Roman Catechism and 2 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)