Mimixxx Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 The Pope's condition has deteriorated overnight and is "very serious" after he suffered a heart attack, went into shock and developed a fever, the Vatican said today. The pointiff was given the sacrament of the infirm (last rites) yesterday and is surrounded by his medical team at the Vatican after requesting not to be taken to hospital for a third time since February. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the chief Vatican spokesman, said in a statement that yesterday afternoon the Pope experienced septic shock and heart failure after developing a urinary tract infection. "This morning the condition of the Holy Father is very serious," the statement said. However, the Pope had participated in mass today at 6am (0400 GMT) and "the Holy Father is conscious, lucid, and serene," it said. Doctors were rushed to the Pope’s bedside last night as his condition worsened dramatically and a senior cardinal said that he was "nearing the end". Overnight the lights were burning in the Pope’s rooms in the third floor of the apostolic apartment above a floodlit St Peter’s Square, which was sealed as pilgrims gathered to keep vigil. Italian television made special late-night broadcasts announcing that the Pope was "seriously ill". The reports came a day after the Vatican had confirmed that the Pope, who underwent throat surgery on February 24 to help him to breathe, was being fed via a nasal tube. There are persistent reports that this will be followed by a gastrostomy — the insertion of a feeding tube into his stomach — perhaps as early as this weekend. As the latest alarm arose an Austrian news agency quoted Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, as saying that the Pope was nearing the end. It quoted the cardinal — a contender for the papacy — as saying during a visit to Jerusalem that the Pope was "approaching, as far as a person can tell, the end of his life". He added that the Pope was "not despondent" and said that he hoped "the moment of relief comes for him". RAI, Italian state television, reported that the Pope had lost 19 kilos (42lbs) since his tracheotomy in February, and said that this explained the decision to insert a nasal feeding tube. On Easter Day and Wednesday the Pope appeared at his window above St Peter’s Square but was unable to speak. Vittorio Messori, a Roman Catholic writer who in the past has collaborated with the Pope on his memoirs, said that the Pope had no intention of resigning, recalling that the pontiff had vowed to serve "for as long as God wills". In its statement on the Pope’s health on Wednesday — the first since he left hospital on March 13 after throat surgery — the Vatican said that he was "directly following" Church and Vatican affairs, celebrating Mass and spending several hours a day in his armchair rather than in his sickbed in the papal apartment, which has been fitted with state-of-the-art medical equipment. The use of the feeding tube illustrates a key Catholic doctrine: it is morally necessary to give patients food and water, no matter their condition. As Parkinson’s disease and other ailments have left him frail, the Pope has said that the chronically ill, "prisoners of their condition, retain their human dignity in all its fullness". Vatican teaching on the final stages of life includes a firm rejection of euthanasia, insistence on treatments that help people to bear ailments with dignity and encouragement of research to enhance and prolong life. The Pope defined what that meant in a speech last year: "I should like particularly to underline how the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. Its use, furthermore, should be considered, in principle, ordinary and proportionate, and as such morally obligatory." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1550548,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Justine* Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 He just lost conciousness. They're broadcasting on Sky News updates from a church thats just down the road from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAFE Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Oh please!!! that stupid vatican ppl don't understand that he needs to take a break!! come on! he's ill...he's a human been.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 That's sad. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas_Man Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 he's a Human BEEN?? haha...nah man, he's a Human Bean! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Bean. Been. Being. Which one is it? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_scorcho Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 :( Poor pope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedy_gonzalez Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 i hope he dies. no more sufferning :( :cry: i`ll miss him tho. he`s my hommie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenjie Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Sounds like he's nearly gone. The news report we were listening to whilst closing up said that he was haging on by a thread. Apparently, he's made his peace with God and is ready to die. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berrywoman Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 I predict he will die during the night... 3am. I can't believe his is dying.. he is the only pope I have known my entire life!!!! :( I was about 3 when he came into the Papalcy... but, still.. its sad. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenjie Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 The BBc's reporting that Prince Rainier of Monaco's not got long left either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berrywoman Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 :stunned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inti Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 the beggers down the street dont have long either, neither do u or i .......ppl die everyday. what scares me is that even if the pope does die..that vicioius cycle still goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Riiiiiiiiight of course... ANYWAY- hes still alive and kicking. Woah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 The BBc's reporting that Prince Rainier of Monaco's not got long left either. neither has our hamster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted April 2, 2005 Author Share Posted April 2, 2005 Nooooooo :stunned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedy_gonzalez Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 the beggers down the street dont have long either, neither do u or i .......ppl die everyday. what scares me is that even if the pope does die..that vicioius cycle still goes on. true that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albie Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 the pope has worsen :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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