28Oct 2026 by Post

Euthanasia: Life Is Not Disposable

Apologetics, bioethics, Christianity, cultural apologetics, euthanasia, FreeThinkingMinistries.com, Gospel, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, mercy killing, Suffering, Thomas Moller
A story from the Netherlands is shocking the world: a two-year-old child was euthanized at the end of 2025. What happened? This young child was born prematurely with a long list of health issues, such as: premature birth leading to sepsis infections, brain damage, periventricular leukomalacia—which itself caused spastic cerebral palsy—and the child also suffered from cerebral visual impairment and epilepsy. According to the doctors overseeing this child, over the two years there was a lack of development and an increase in suffering with no hope for improvement. Due to this, the doctors, along with the parents, decided the best thing to do was to end this child’s life. So, then the child was put into a medically induced coma and sedated to such a state that he died.[i] It…
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25Sep 2024 by Post

Three Bad Arguments for Euthanasia

Apologetics, assisted suicide, bioethics, ChristianConcern.com, euthanasia, Gospel, imago Dei, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, mercy killing, Sanctity of Life, Sean Redfearn
Polling sometimes suggests that the UK public is in favor of ‘assisted dying.’ This is an illusion, caused in many cases by people not knowing what ‘assisted dying is.’ A recent poll showed that only 42% of the public understood what ‘assisted dying’ refers to, with 10% thinking it meant hospice-type care and 42% believing it meant stopping treatment. There is no legal or ethical mandate that a terminally ill person must be kept alive “at all costs.” There is, however, a major difference between withdrawing medical treatment and thereby allowing a patient to die of his or her own medical condition and intentionally ending a patient’s life. What Is Euthanasia? Euthanasia (as well as assisted suicide) is most basically understood as the lethal dose of drugs to deliberately end…
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28Oct 2023 by Post

How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

A Concise History of Euthanasia, assisted suicide, Brandeis University, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, euthanasia, hemlock, honey, Ian Dowbiggin, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medication, Medicine, mercy killing, New York Times, nurse practitioners, patients, poisons, Rachel E. Gross, suicide, University of Colorado
When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane. Source
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