Bringing Light to a Culture of Death

caption id=”attachment_1852″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300″] Stock image[/caption]   by Joyce A. Shelton, Ph.D. Professor of Biology Emerita Trinity International University In contemporary western culture, autonomy (self will, personal choice) is the supreme value. This value is no better exemplified than in the promotion of self-controlled death through legalization of physician assisted suicide. Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) means a physician provides a patient-requested lethal medication that their patient can then use to end his or her life. Most recently, we have witnessed the legalization of PAS, also termed Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), to ever ballooning proportions in Canada and now in ...read more

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