By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, CNSNews, February 11, 2022
John Stonestreet is President of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview and BreakPoint co-host. Shane Morris is a senior writer at BreakPoint, a program of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
Writing in The Washington Post last week, prominent columnist George Will described the heart-wrenching account of 29-year-old California man dying a slow and agonizing death from cancer. The man’s wife has documented his painful decline in photos. In his column, Will argues that it would have been better if this man had obtained a medical suicide. He praised states like Oregon that make this option available.
In Will’s ideal world, so-called “medical aid in dying” would be available for all terminally ill patients, “not for truncating an unhappy life,” but for “preventing a hideous death.” He hopes to distinguish between a world in which doctors hand out suicides like candy, and one in which people already in their final days can obtain a swift and peaceful end. …