” the right to end their lives peacefully if they choose. “
They already have this “right”. Anyone can commit suicide.
How people choose to end their lives is no concern of the state, the church, the courts or the busybodies on FR.
>> which would give Californians facing an imminent, excruciating death <<
No-one faces an imminent, excruciating death due to medical causes. If the doctors are too afraid to provide adequately potent pain-killers for fear of lawsuits, then the reform should be focused on that; far better that some die from complications or an overdose of a painkiller than that doctors and heirs can use severe pain as a tool to get a person to literally sign their lives away.
Well, that dying denomination should know all about the subject of death. The old Methodists will soon be gone, and there will be few new ones to take their place.
the problem with this is the problem churches “should” have with suicide - these so called options for end of life removes God from the process. God made us and God calls us home
I understand being in such pain and in such a hopeless, diseased state that you wish to just end it.
There are many people who will help you. There are many ways to do it. The state need not be involved or condone it.
Have families become so fragmented that one need rely on the state to do what has been the role of close relatives since the beginning of time?