Nevertheless, as personal autonomy, even to the point of taking a life, continues to be a rising value throughout North America, other Christian ethicists have sounded the alarm regarding the morality of MAID and physician assisted suicide.
“Those who are persuaded that ending the patient is an effective and appropriate intervention for serious suffering will be hard pressed to find a form of suffering for which MAID is not an appropriate consideration,” wrote Ewan C. Goligher, physician and scientist at the University of Toronto, in an article published in The Gospel Coalition.
“Beneath a veneer of compassion and respect, and despite the sincere intentions of those involved, MAID constitutes a profound violation of human dignity and value and an affront to the high status granted to us by our Creator,” Goligher went on to say. “By deliberately ending our existence, MAID fails to show appropriate regard for the intrinsic goodness of our existence. You cannot express value for that which is priceless by destroying it.”
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“Let us do all we can to comfort and care for those who are suffering and those who are dying, accompanying them on their journey toward glory. Let us advocate for our elected representatives to ensure access to palliative care,” Goligher concluded. “And let us remind one another of our incalculable and inherent value in God’s sight by servant-hearted love that never fails to say ‘it is good that you exist.’”
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