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Palazzo San Calisto, 00120 VATICAN CITY (Phone/Fax: +39 06 6988 7372;
http://www.fiamc.org)
President: Gian Luigi Gigli, MD
PASCHA IN RESURRECTIONE DOMINI 2004
FIAMC wishes you and your family a blessed Easter in the joy of the Risen Christ
Gian Luigi Gigli, MD
President
from the speech of the Holy Father to the International Congress
"Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas"
organised by FIAMC and by the Pontifical Academy for Life
www.vegetativestate.org
The Church encourages the efforts of men of science who, sometimes at great sacrifice, daily dedicate their task of study and research to the improvement of the diagnostic, therapeutic, prognostic and rehabilitative possibilities confronting those patients who rely completely on those who care for and assist them.
I feel the duty to reaffirm strongly that the intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being do not change, no matter what the concrete circumstances of his or her life. A man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a man, and he will never become a "vegetable" or an "animal."
I exhort you, as men and women of science, responsible for the dignity of the medical profession, to guard jealously the principle according to which the true task of medicine is "to cure if possible, always to care."
John Paul II
Rome, 20 March 2004
Tintoretto
Venice
Church of Santo Stefano
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