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- Ecclesiastes 11:9 tells us that while we are
RELIGION
LIFE
- Sacred
- Precious gift from God
- Has a special meaning (since we are
created in accordance to the image and
likeness of God)
- We are called to be responsible
BIRTH OF A BABY
- Remind us that life is a gift worth
celebrating and a miracle beyond our
own making.
- Helps us see the beauty of human life
- Their innocence makes us vulnerable
which gives us the need to uphold,
protect, and value human life.
BUHAY
- Used in the many aspects
● Hanapbuhay
● Pagbabagumbuhay
● Nabuhayan ng loob
● Buhay in a sense of a loved one
or person’s vocation
FILIPINOS: A LIFE-LOVING PEOPLE
- We express our respect for human life in
the way we care for others.
1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
- Highest law of our country
- A testament to respect human life
- “If a nation’s laws mirror the values and
identity of its people, then we are indeed a
life-loving people”
PEOPLE POWER 1986
- Revolution that did not engage in
bloodshed violence
- Peace declaration of our freedom as
Filipinos and as humans
WE CELEBRATE LIFE THROUGH:
● Language, Customs, Beliefs
● Rejoicing in the most significant moments
● Caring for each member of the family
TEENAGERS AND THE GIFT OF LIFE
young, we must rejoice to the wonders of
youth. Follow the ways of your heart and
visions of your eyes.
➢ “Seize the day”
➢ Those who do not authentically
comprehend this statement may
take things the wrong way which
leads them to pursue destructive
ends
THIRST OF LIFE
- Source of our creativeness
- Way to build a better version of ourselves
and our relationship with others
➢ Say no to bullying, studying very
well, etc
- Growing up is realizing that respect for
life is an essential element of true
freedom
CULTURE OF DEATH
- Killing being the “new norm”
- VIEW: Human Life is not God’s gift but an
object or commodity that may be
disposed when it is already unworthy.
- EVANGELIUM VITAE OF ST. JOHN PAUL II:
➢ We are confronted with mindset,
attitudes, and acts that oppose
true freedom
- According to E.V, we encounter the
culture of death during:
a. Worth of a person is based on
looks, efficiency, and their
strength: becomes an outcast
b. Weakest member of society is
seen as a burden
c. People support acts that limit
population growth
d. Violence as a means to solve
conflicts
e. Leaders legalizing acts that
violate human life
f. Prejudism, discrimination, or
situations that concerns to the
threat of a person’s dignity
“YOU SHALL NOT KILL”
● OLD TESTAMENT SIGNIFICANCE
- Forbids us to violate human life
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- Dishonor life and disrespect it:
dishonors and disrespects the
Giver of life
- Important to the Israelites after
being liberated from slavery (and
how the Pharaoh commanded to
kill newborn Hebrew boys)
➢ Build a community that is
free from abuse &
slavery
- To save life; promote love,
growth and joy
● NEW TESTAMENT SIGNIFICANCE
- ANGER: root of killing
- Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount
prohibited even unjust anger
towards one’s neighbor
➢ Although anger is part of
being human. Christ also
experienced anger
because of corruption
and such
➢ Challenge to control our
emotions
- Distinguish justified anger (e.g
‘yung kay Jesus) and prejudiced
hatred (the act of vengeance
which Jesus rejects)
- Christ fulfilled the 6th
commandment by showing how
we should protect and care for
human life
CHRIST, OUR LIFE
- Christ as the source of life is considered as
a good news because:
a. His sacrifice showed us the
sincere gift of self; inspire us to
love and give life to others
b. Experiencing God’s eternal life
through his triumph over sin and
death, Christ showed us the true
meaning of dignity
➢ We are destined to rise in
eternal life
- RISEN CHRIST: Good news= alive and
glorified
- NEW LIFE OF GRACE: Holy Spirit (Christ’s
gift that strengthens and empowers us)
- We are persons for life and of life
➢ Proclaiming the good news
THE SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK
- An empowering Sacrament
- Relate our illness, death and suffering to
Christ's Passion, Death and Resurrection to
know how He triumphed over pain and
death.
- Through our Christian Faith, we can
understand the mystery of our suffering
and bear our pains more courageously
- What does it do?
a. Receives the grace of the Holy
Spirit
b. Restoration of Health
c. Deepening of one’s trust to God
amidst suffering
d. Calls the sick to hope and believe
in the power of the Risen Christ
e. Strength to resist temptation
f. Turns despair into consoling joy,
peace, and hope of the Church’s
compassion
VIOLATIONS OF THE DIGNITY OF
HUMAN LIFE (haba nito pero g)
ABORTION
- MEANING: deliberate and direct killing by
the removal of the embryo or fetus
before it even survives outside the uterus
➢ allows women to put an end to
unwanted pregnancies so it does
not result in the birth of their child
- Can occur medically or surgically
- Some women don’t get pregnant as a
product of love, but instead, a product of
LUST
- Women are victims of abortion because of
misinformation and lack of education
● Birth controls (aka contraceptive)
are abortifacient because it
prevents the implantation of the
already developing child
● Mindset during early stage of
pregnancy: cannot be considered
“life” because it is only a mass of
blood or tissue.
- VIOLATION BECAUSE: It is an act of
murder as said in the science of
embryology that once an embryo is
formed, it acquires a special set of DNA.
Thus, the embryo is already said to be
living.
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- REASONS:
● Pregnancy outside marriage
● External pressure
● Priorities
● Financial concerns
● Too young (teenage pregnancy)
● Health issues
● Lust
- EFFECTS:
● Sterility: unable to produce yet
another child
● Perforation of the cervix
(pagkakaroon ng holes sa cervix
mo)
● Heavy bleeding
● Damage to reproductive systems
● Depression, self-hatred, PAS (post
abortion syndrome)
- VIEWS
A. PROHIBITED TOGETHER
➢ Some countries do not
permit abortion under
any circumstances, even
if the women’s health is
at risk
B. TO SAVE A WOMAN’S LIFE
➢ Laws of other countries
permit abortion when the
woman’s life is at risk
C. TO PRESERVE HEALTH
➢ Other countries permit
abortion on the basis of
the health or therapeutic
grounds
D. BROAD SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC
GROUNDS
➢ Woman's environment
and economic
circumstance has a
potential impact on her
pregnancy and child
bearing
- CHURCH LAW
➢ Human being is to be respected
and treated as a person from the
moment of misconception
- RH LAW
➢ Responsible parenthood and
reproductive health act
➢ Helps unwanted or unplanned
pregnancies by providing access
to family planning, counseling,
contraceptives, reproductive
health education, and other
measures
- HUMANAE VITAE
 “Of Human Life”
 Written by Pope Paul the VI
 Deals with marriage, responsible
parenthood, and rejection of birth
control methods such as artificial
contraception and abortion itself
 GOD is the author of life and the
lives He creates are sacred
 Any intervention of life between
the birth and death defies God’s
ultimate authority and is strongly
condemned and prohibited by the
Catholic Church
➢ God has the only right to create
and withdraw life
➢ “Grave moral disorder”
- EVANGELIUM VITAE
 “The Gospel of Life”
 Promulgated by Pope John Paul II
 “unspeakable act”
 Deals with issues related to the
sanctity and sacredness of human
life e.g. murder, euthanasia, the
death penalty, and abortion
➢ Written to address the value of
human life and maintain that
societies and individuals should
do everything to preserve life
- 1987 PH CONST. S12, A11
➢ Child has the right to be born and
to live; States the protection of a
mother’s health
➢ State shall protect the life of the
mother and the unborn.
➢ Women are not allowed to
undergo any procedures that will
in any way harm their offspring
because of the said law
➢ Do not contain any conceptions
allowing abortion, e.g. to save
the life of the pregnant woman
or to protect her health
- BILL OF RIGHTS
➢ Abortion takes away the right of
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the unborn to live and

experience life

- NATURAL LAW
➢ Contradicts the fact of how we
humans should protect all forms
of life because the child
deserves all the love and
protection the world could offer

- GUIDING VALUES:
a. PROJECT RACHEL
➢ Discovered by
Vicki Thorn that
refrains abortion
➢ Provide a team
response of care for
those suffering in the
aftermath of abortion
b. SACRAMENTAL
RECONCILIATIO
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➢ Church’s ministry
- REASONS:
provides open service of
● Acceptance
pastoral counseling,
● Status
support groups, retreats,
and etc. ● Tabooed pleasure
● Rebellion
c. CALENDAR METHOD
● Curiosity
➢ Help a woman to
observe and predict her ● Coping method
fertile days by tracking ● Escape
the length of menstrual ● Lack of Guidance
cycles ● Comfort, Relief, and Solace
➢ Will help her determine
her safe and unsafe days - EFFECTS:
d. SEMINARS ➢ Smoking
➢ In regards to the
calendar method instead
of the government giving
away condoms and other
contraceptives
e. ADOPTION
➢ Cases of rape and
financial instability
➢ “Grand” opportunity daw
for the child’s care
system.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- MEANING: The act of abusing the intake
of substances that can lead to addiction
- Happens when an individual uses drugs
to an extent that will harm themselves
and others as well
➢ Harms the user physically,
emotionally, mentally, and causes
behavioral changes
➢ Often explored by adolescence
➢ We became slaves of our
addiction because of our
dependence on it

ABUSER VS. ADDICT

o Substance Abuse
- Individual still has
control over their
life and willingly
intakes drugs
o Substance Addiction
- Individual has
illness and cannot
control their life
and intake

- VIOLATION BECAUSE: Damages our

health and well-being that could also
endanger lives

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● Risk of heart disease dangerous drug and harmful substances

● Lung cancer
➢ Alcohol
● Acts of violence
● Behavioral disposition
➢ Drugs
● Euphoria: "high”
● reckless behavior
 Short or Long-term illness
 Behavioral Change
 Damage in Relationships
 Financial Problems
- NATURAL LAW
➢ Wide range of health effects
➢ Neglectful use of substance
can have great impact on
one’s relationship with
others
- CHURCH LAW
➢ Implication that we must respect
our bodies since the human body
is a “temple of the Holy Spirit”
➢ How we should guide and care
for our neighbors who are
victims of substance abuse
➢ Tackle how it strays our
bond with the Father
 SUBSTANCE AWARENESS
- Help everyone to be more mindful
 EDUCATE
- How to prevent the abuse of substances
 ATTEND SEMINARS
- To provide guaidance
SUICIDE
- MEANING: Act of felo de se (latin; felon of
himself)
● Act of killing thyself because the
person gives up on life
● A gravely immoral act due to
having full knowledge and
consent of the gravity of its
commission and violation.
- Now accepts burials from the people who
commit suicide
➢ Victims do not have the full the
state to think correctly (person
may be struggling with a
psycho-emotional and
personality disorder)
➢ Way of showing God’s
compassion to them

- CIVIL LAW:
COMPREHENSIVE
DANGEROUS ACT OF 2002
➢ State must safeguard its
citizens against harmful effects
of drugs on their physical and
mental being
- RA NO. 9211 ( Tobacco Regulation Act of
2003)
➢ To promote a “healthful
environment”
➢ Absolutely prohibits smoking in
public areas such as schools,
colleges, universities, etc.

- GUIDING VALUES:
a. Social Impact
b. Empathy
c. Collaboration
d. Support System
e. Providing practical, moral,
and spiritual guidance

ACT
 DRUG ABUSE REHABILITATION
NETWORK
- Aims to promote rehabilitation for drug
users and guide them on their road
recovery
 PHILIPPINE DRUG ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY
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- VIOLATION BECAUSE:
➢ No one has the superiority to take
away one’s life for God, the
Creator has the only power of
doing so. By doing this, it means
you are attacking His sovereignty.
- REASONS
● Depression, despair,
hopelessness and anxiety
● Poverty/state (inability to deal
with life distresses)
● Relationships (school, friends,
family)
● Discrimination (refugees, lgbtq+
members, prisoners)
● Health disorders
- NATURAL LAW
➢ Contradicts the natural inclination
of the human being to preserve
and perpetuate his life
➢ Maligns the idea of taking care of
oneself in all aspects
➢ A social sin because of how it can
affect others (breaks the ties of
solidarity with family, nation, and
other human societies)
➢ “Grave psychological
disturbances, anguish, or grave
fear of hardship, suffering, or
torture can diminish the
responsibility of the one
committing suicide. ”
- GUIDING VALUES
a. Church reminds us of our
obligation to help by extending
genuine compassion to those
who are going through a rough
time.
b. Be the “salt of the earth” and
“the light of the world” in order
to guide them out from darkness
c. Have genuine compassion
d. Important to ask questions to the
people who has thoughts of
suicide to make them feel that we
listen to their problems and
struggles.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
- MEANING: Execution of an offender
sentenced to death after committing an
offense to the law.
➢ Also known as “Death Penalty”
- VIOLATION BECAUSE: Only God, the one
who gave us life, has the right to take it
from us for it is a gift that we are given the
opportunity to experience the beauty of
creation.
- Before people did not see it as something
relevant because of the notion, “an eye for
an eye, a tooth for a tooth”
- METHODS:
a. Lethal Injection
b. Electrocution (electric chair)
c. Lethal Gas
d. Hanging/Lynching
- CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH:
● Treason
● Espionage
● Murder
● Rape
● Drug trafficking
● Hijacking
- VIEWS
A. VICTIMS
➢ Or relatives of the
victims, may view it as
revenge on the offender.
➢ They may also view
Death Penalty as closure
to the pain the offender
has caused.
B. GOVERNMENT
➢ PRO: Politicians support
this as a way to remove
the people who
immense in such acts
➢ ANTI: For them, this
doesn't help resolve a
country's crime rate as it
is cruel and inhumane
C. YOUTH
➢ Majority of the youth
refuses to support this.
➢ Elizabeth Gatmaitan said
that the government
should influence people
to do good as they abide
the laws and human
rights that is
implemented. It defeats
the existence of the
government to protect
our dignity and rights.
➢ “A foolish choice during
the corrupted term of our
government”
- CHURCH LAWS
● Catechism of the Catholic
Church #2267:
➢ Capital punishment is
inadmissable because it
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is an attack on the
inviolability and dignity
of the person.
● EVANGELIUM VITAE
➢ Tackles about the value
of life and warnings in
violating the sanctity of
life
- DIVINE LAW
● The Fifth of the 10
Commandments states, “Thou
shall not kill.”
➢ We are taught that the
greatest evil that can be
committed is for one to
take their neighbor’s life.
● LOVE COMMANDMENT
➢ “Love your neighbor as
you love yourself”
- NATURAL LAWS
➢ “Personally, I am against the
death penalty. Human beings are
the greatest resource in society.
Within every individual is an
endless supply of possibilities,
knowledge, and creativity. To kill
a human being is to waste and
get rid of the investment before it
has borne fruit.” - Maita
EUTHANASIA (wow binabasa mo pa ba ito)
Fernanded of UP Manila
- CIVIL LAWS
➢ Death penalty was abolished in
1986, after President Marcos’
reign, but under the newly
drafted 1987 constitution, It could
still be reinstated for what was
considered “henious” crimes
a. Republic Act 7659.
b. Republic Act 8177
c. Republic Act 9346
- GUIDING VALUES
➢ Legalization of the death penalty
is not a solution to any problems.
➢ It was clear that the violence that
comes with Capital Punishment
will spark even more negative
consequences, psychologically
to the victims and their family,
and to the life and right of the
criminal.
a. Fix Justice System:
Justice is not properly
served in the Philippines.
The people must
educate themselves in
electing the officials
that can properly
identify, judge and allot
the proper consequence
to the given crime with
respect to certain
circumstances present in
every situation.
b. Rehabilitation Centers:
Criminals should be
given access to
rehabilitation centers to
give them intervention
care or psychiatric help.
With that, they have a
chance to reform and
grow to help them
change for the better.
c. RECLUSION PERPETUA:
life imprisonment; a way
to show respect to their
life especially special
cases that involves the
suspect being diagnosed
with mental illness
d. SOCIAL MEDIA
PLATFORM: as students,
we have the chance to
spread awareness
- MEANING: also known as mercy killing,
which is the painless termination of a
person’s life
➢ Greek word: euthanatos “easy by
death”
➢ Act of mercy offered to the
patient or their family usually
because of the patient being
diagnosed with an incurable
disease
- VIOLATION BECAUSE: The act of
terminating the life of the patient
(remember the phrase: right to live no
matter what the circumstance may be)
- TYPES:
➢ ACTIVE EUTHANASIA: assisted
suicide like death by lethal
injection
➢ PASSIVE EUTHANASIA:
withdrawing of life-support
➢ VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA: done
with the patient’s consent
➢ NON-VOLUNTARY: done when
the patient’s consent is
unavailable (usually sa family ng
patient kumukuha ng permission)
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➢ INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA:
against the will of the patient
- VIEWS
➢ FORFEIT PAIN (PRO)
● Let go of the pain they
are currently
experiencing
➢ DIE PEACEFULLY AND RETAIN
THEIR DIGNITY
● Freedom to choose on
how they took full
control of their life
➢ ELIMINATES THE FEAR OF
FINANCIAL BURDEN
● Patients who are
diagnosed with a
terminal illness use a
vast proportion of
medical funding
equipment
● The patient’s family will
not only end their
affliction, but they could
also save money
➢ ALLOW DOCTORS TO KILL THEIR
PATIENTS (CON)
● Due to the reason of not
finding any adequate
solutions to one’s illness
➢ DEVALUE HUMAN LIFE
● How it can be misused
because of how people
see as the “antidote” to
end their patient’s
solution
● May teach people that
human life has a lesser
value because of the
immediate loss of hope
- DIVINE LAW
➢ Killing is an ultimate sin against
God
➢ Bible does not allow one to end
one’s life, even if death is near
➢ Although the bible does not
require for us to prolong life any
further because God promises to
resurrect those who will die
- HIPPOCRATIC OATH
➢ Physicians must value the life of
their patient and never suggest
any means to suicide
➢ Exhaust all efforts to save their
patient’s life
- 1987 PH CONST. A2 S11
➢ State values the dignity of every
human person and guarantees
full respect for human rights
➢ Active and passive euthanasia
was not legalized in the
Philippines even though there
was a proposal of the bill
- GUIDING VALUE
➢ As Christians, we could serve as
an inspiration to others by
appreciating life and to remind
them that there is hope in any
unexpected circumstances
EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING
- MEANING: Execution of a person by state
actors without legal processes.
- President Duterte has a strong
determination to fight against drugs, so he
came up with the plan. Oplan Tokhang
- OPLAN TOKHANG
➢ Approach and talk
➢ Effect: killings were reported
everywhere in the PH (shoot to
kill)
- Affects the family and the one’s in the
poverty state
- VIOLATION BECAUSE: The direct killing of
a person without a justifiable process of
interrogation
- RA. 1188 SECTION 5
➢ Special protection of children in
Situation of Armed Conflicts
➢ Example of a victim of EJK: Kian
Delos Santos+
- 1987 PH CONST. ARTICLE 3
➢ No person shall be held to
answer for a criminal without due
process of law
- GUIDING VALUES
➢ Direct more money towards
building rehabilitation centers for
drug users
➢ Direct instruction towards the use
of firearms and restraint on the
use of lethal force should be
implemented
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➢ Focusing on eliminating poverty

itself once it is one of the major
contributory factors of drug use
and abuse,
➢ The government should treat the
use of drugs as an issue of health.
- REPUBLIC ACT NO.8371
➢ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act
- LAUDATO SI
➢ Encyclical that focuses on the
current state of the environment

ENVIRONMENT
- KALIWA DAM PROJECT
➢ Project Funded by China
➢ 60-meter dam expected to
resolve the issue of water
shortage in Metro Manila

- HOW WILL THIS AFFECT THE RIZAL AND

QUEZON PROVINCES?
➢ Displacement of residents in the
aforementioned areas Damages a
big part of the area’s rich
biodiversity
➢ Another environmental social
cost

- PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION NO. 1636

➢ A certain parcel of land situated
in the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal,
Laguna, and Quezon will be
declared as a Forest Reserve,
National Park, and Wildlife
Sanctuary, and thus, should be
preserved and taken care of.

- PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 389 of 1974

➢ A serious need to conserve the
nation’s public forests to protect
and preserve national parks and
provide suitable agricultural land
for the people.

- RA #7568
➢ National Integrated Protected
Area Systems Act
➢ Use and enjoyment of these
protected places must be
consistent with the principles of
biological diversity

- FREE PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT

➢ Recognizes indigenous peoples'
right to self- determination and
provides protection for their
ancestral domains and resources
➢ Failed to be secured by NCIP,
MWSS, and other local officials

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