'Death with dignity' dangerously normalizes suicide
The Church should offer compassion, hope and care to the dying, but having the power of the state weigh in on this matter is the issue at hand. Laws against suicide are designed to prevent people from seeking a permanent solution to a temporary problem and to force treatment on the mentally ill who are to sick to seek it.
It was never meant to interfere in the right to end a long term illness because people would often die more quickly. We must also allow people to give up when doctors will not. We are a resurrection people. Some truly believe that God is an Ogre who damns us for ending pain. That is the implication if you start talking about sin in this context.
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