Dignitas
Proper noun
Meaning
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Dignitas
A Swiss organization that helps people with terminal illnesses to die with little pain
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In 2008, Meaney said, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department of the Vatican charged with interpreting Catholic beliefs, issued the "Dignitas Personae," which addressed biomedical issues that had arisen in the church.
Released in 2005, “Dignitas Connubii” (The Dignity of Marriage) was a set of norms compiled by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts to serve as a practical guide to help make the canonical processes of marriage nullity more efficient.
Dignitas would win five of the next six rounds to tie the score at 8. Silhouette held off a second comeback attempt in later rounds to defeat Dignitas 16-14.
It also cited the congregation’s 2008 instruction, “Dignitas Personae,” which states that “grave reasons may be morally proportionate to justify the use of such biological material.”
In fact, these, and similar bioethical questions, are ones that the Vatican wrote about several years ago in the 2008 document, Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person).
This week Dignitas confirmed the 394th person from the UK had died in its clinic.