How Should We Then Die?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Is it ethical for physicians to assist patients in hastening their own death? Should Christians who are facing death accept the offer of an assisted death? Carl and Todd talk to physician Ewan Goligher about these important issues addressed in his book How Should We Then Die? In his book, Ewan draws from general revelation and Scripture to persuade and equip Christians to oppose physician-assisted death. The logic of assisted death is predicated on the idea that you’re rendering someone better off by ending their life. And [in] the philosophical and ethical literature where people write about this, they represent the logic as a kind of calculus where you weigh up the good of remaining alive and the bad of remaining alive, and you essentially decide that if the bad of remaining alive outweighs the good, then it makes sense to end my life. And the glaring gap in that logic is that it ignores the question of what it is like to be dead. – Ewan Goligher Proponents of euthanasia presume what it is like to be dead. But for Christians, death is not the end. Christ Jesus has destroyed death and brought life and immortality through the gospel. For this reason, Christians must think deeply about these life-and-death issues. We are pleased to award three copies of How Should We Then Die? to our listeners, thanks to the generosity of our friends at Lexham Press. Congratulations Erin D. from Sacramento, CA, Ben C. from Andover, KS, and Tom M. from Greer, SC! Show Notes: The Desecration of Man by Carl Trueman On Death and Dying: A Catechism for Christians by Ewan Goligher

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. You are listening to Mortification of Spin. My name is Todd Pruitt with you, as always.
0:52.3	I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in
0:55.1	Harrisonburg, Virginia in the lovely Shenandoah Valley. And I'm joined, as always, by my co-host
1:00.6	and my friend of many years now, Carl Truman of Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania.
1:06.6	Carl, it's good to see you. How are things out in the middle of nowhere?
1:12.1	Just wrapped up finals, finished all my grading, and ready for graduation. So it's that sweet spot in the year when I have no responsibilities. Hence, I'm wearing a T-shirt instead of my trademark dress shirt and tie for these recordings.
1:26.6	It's scandalous. It's scandalous, really.
1:29.7	Although I would have been super impressed had you worn a mortification of spin sleeveless
1:35.4	t-shirt. That would have been...
1:38.1	Sleeveless t-shirts should not even exist. I think they're a product of the fall as far as I'm concerned. There was no sleeveless
1:45.8	t-shirts in the guard of the beach. It's probably because you have, it's probably because you
1:49.3	have hairy shoulders. We would have mistaken you for Sasquatch or something like that.
1:53.6	That could be in the realm of too much information at this point. Well, from, from the ridiculous to the sublime, how about this for a transition?
2:04.4	We are pleased to have with us today as a guest, Dr. Ewan Gallagher, who is a medical doctor.
2:14.5	He's also a PhD, and he's Canadian as well.
2:18.2	There are, now I know a number of good things that come out of Canada.
2:22.4	You have Michael J. Fox, you have Rush, and you have Ewan Gulliger.
2:27.2	So, Shania Twain, don't you get, Shania Twain?
2:30.0	There you go. Yeah, yeah.
2:31.5	So, I mean, it keeps getting better for Canada.
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