Over the last 20 years there have been many unsuccessful attempts to change the law on physician assisted suicide. The recent debate and vote on this showed that there is much ignorance about the problem of death.
I was a surgeon with particular interest in Surgical Oncology, so often had to face issues of people who were facing death. The word ‘euthanasia’ literally meant ‘good death’ and this is something every caring physician wants for his patients who have a terminal disease. It is unfortunate that many now understand it to mean an accelerated death, a form of physician assisted suicide.
In the last 50 years there have been many changes under what may be called a ‘woke’ umbrella, where individuals can decide what they want to think about anything without fear of criticism. Homosexual acts were once illegal, suicide was once illegal, but now these attitudes are changing. It is as if right and wrong are defined by what those in authority and by what those in the media want it to be.
King Charles and Christian theology - same words, different meanings?
It is all too easy for teachers to use Biblical words but for the meaning to be far from Biblical. …