Cardinal Jeong Jin-seok, hospitalized for poor health… “I don’t want life-saving treatment”

The Seoul Archdiocese said, “Cardinal Jung felt a lot of pain in his body, and was admitted to the Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital on the 21st with a recommendation from the surroundings.” Told.

The Seoul Archdiocese said, “Cardinal Chung himself signed on September 27, 2018, that he would not provide life-sustaining treatment in the life-sustaining medical plan.

“In 2006, in case of brain death, which he pledged, he asked the medical staff to do organ donation and post-corneal donation. I have petitioned by writing,” he said.

On the 25th, the parish said that Cardinal Chung had to dedicate all the balance in his bankbook to the soup kitchen, Myeongdong restaurant, and children’s faith education.

Cardinal Jung had undergone several surgeries due to chronic illness in the past, but he recovered his health and continued his writing activities.

Cardinal Chung was born in Seoul in December 1931. He entered the Catholic University of theology in 1954 and received a private product in 1961. After serving as the youngest bishop in 1970, he served as the head of the Cheongju diocese and the chairman of the Korean Catholic Bishops’ Church for 28 years.

From 1998 to 2012, when he was appointed Archbishop, he served as both president of Seoul Archdiocese and Pyongyang Diocese, and in March 2006, he was ordained cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI. As a Korean, it was the second time after Cardinal Kim Soo-hwan.

Since 2007, he has been a member of the Cardinals Committee of the Constellation of the Holy See, and since his retirement in 2012, he stayed at the Catholic University of Hyehwa-dong, where Cardinal Kim stayed.