What is the state of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada today?

How significant are the financial pressures on the Canadian health system?

And is that a reason that assisted suicide and euthanasia are encouraged?

And what is involved in a Christian response to physician assisted suicide and

euthanasia, otherwise known as medical aid in dying.

We'll address these questions and a whole lot more with our guest, Dr. Ewan Gulliger,

critical care physician and professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Toronto.

I'm your host, Scott Ray, and this is Think Biblically from Tablet School of Theology, Biola University.

Dr. Gulliger, thank you so much for being with us.

I know we're part of a major conference here this week, and you're inundated with folks

that want to talk to you.

But thank you for taking the time to have this conversation about medical aid and

dying and a Christian response to it.

That's my very great pleasure.

Thanks very much, Scott.

So how would you summarize the state of medical aid and dying in Canada today? And maybe,

first of all, clarify what is actually meant by that term medical aid and dying?

Well, medical aid and dying is an umbrella term that encompasses practices such as assisted suicide and a practice like

euthanasia, both of which are aimed at bringing about the death of the patient with assisted

suicide, a patient, and just a lethal dose of cocktail of drugs with euthanasia, a physician

or a nurse practitioner directly administers the

drugs to the patient. But from a moral point of view, they're really very similar practices

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