Patience comes from the Latin word “pati” which means to suffer; thus patience is required by and at the very core of suffering. Bearing a chronic illness, a slow decline or a condition which one can’t resolve or control is particularly difficult

What IVF and Euthanasia Have in Common

by Marie Meaney, Ph.D.

In vitro fertilization (IVF) and Euthanasia seem strange bedfellows. "Polar opposites" is what comes to mind at first. 

After all, the one is about generating new life, it would seem, while the other is about ending it prematurely. 

Yet after hearing about two cases of IVF among my acquaintances recently, I was struck by the fact that they have more in common than we think, and that the mentality behind the one leads to the other. 

A mother at my daughter's preschool told me about her IVF-procedure: she had lied to her doctor about the time she and her husband had tried to conceive - it had been 8 months instead of 12. 

For some reason, she was convinced they would never have children naturally, panicked (she was in her late 30s) and decided to take the IVF-route as quickly as possible...
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Read more: http://www.truthandcharityforum.org/what-ivf-and-euthanasia-have-in-common/