Frances DEmilio
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/ 9 November 2004

Vatican to promote the use of painkillers

The Vatican restated the Catholic Church’s prohibition of euthanasia on Tuesday, as officials promoted use of painkilling drugs to help dying patients live out their days to a ”natural end”. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan — the pope’s leading official on health care — was responding to a question about living wills at a news conference.