Euthanasia and the Betrayal of Covenant – Catholic Stand

Thomas Hobbes described the state of nature as a war of all against all, in which life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” In nature no one is exempt from the threat of death, even the strongest needs to sleep and so at some time is vulnerable. Therefore each and every one of us benefits from a social contract in which each agrees not to kill the other.