A podcast listener named Marna writes in,

Hello, Pastor John, I'm a physician in Canada

that would soon face requests from my patients

regarding assisted dying for possibly the elderly,

the chronically ill or for cancer patients.

Legislation would soon be approved.

How do I have such a conversation with patients

and family given the fact that it is not God's perfect will

and not Christ or gospel centered?

What is your view on this, Pastor John?

You know, the first thing that comes to my mind right now

is we're talking, which hadn't come to my mind before

as I was thinking about this kind of issue,

is that the phrase she used, assisted dying,

that's a tricky phrase.

Instead of assisted suicide, assisted dying,

nobody's gonna have a problem with assisted dying.

If assisted dying means, give me a drug please

to help the pain not be so great as I'm dying.

So that phrase is one of those slippery,

ooh, it just kind of gals me that when we invent phrases

that are okay in one sense and not okay in another

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