The marginalization of and willful blindness toward persons with disabilities should come as no surprise when we recognize that society not only allows but encourages destroying those persons prenatally.
Suicide affects us not only in the here and now, but has significant, even eternal, implications for the journey to that “undiscovered country” that awaits us.
The Church gives us this rule not to control us but to remind us to detach ourselves from things that are passing away so that we might receive those things which are eternal.