Replies

Just because they “say” they are Evangelical doesn’t make it so. Many of these people may be caregivers for their parents who do not want to go through the heartwrenching experience or maybe don’t care (I hope that’s not the case). . but we are neither the Giver of life or the Taker of life.

I have a progressive auto-immune disease that is slowly taking my strength away. I AM NOT going to make my wife destroy her physical and mental health as well as her finances trying to take care of me. I am going out on my own timeframe. I am an “Evangelical “ but I totally resent these ‘we know better than you ‘ types trying to govern how I exit this world. We ALL die, so let us do it on our terms, not the government.

Just because they “say” they are Evangelical doesn’t make it so. Many of these people may be caregivers for their parents who do not want to go through the heartwrenching experience or maybe don’t care (I hope that’s not the case). . but we are neither the Giver of life or the Taker of life. As with the title "Christian," and later "born again," "Evangelical" - which originally denoted a movement that rose up in contention for core doctrines and against liberals and cults which deny them - has become increasingly diluted. Though they are still the most unified conservative major religious group.

Consistent with that, and which the Catholic Lifeway site should have headlined, the actual study that is referred to found that 70 percent of Catholics (and 53% of all Protestants, 84 percent of Nones and 70 percent those of other religions) agreed with the statement,. “When a person is facing a painful terminal disease, it is morally acceptable to ask for a physician’s aid in taking his or her own life.”

Meanwhile, 38 percent of those with evangelical beliefs say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable.

The stats are similar on those who say physicians should be allowed to assist terminally ill patients in ending their lives