Pastor John, here's a question from the news, from a listener who asks this, Pastor John,

thank you for the podcast.

I'm struggling with the story of Jericho Bolin in Appleton, Wisconsin.

There's an enormous amount of support for this 14-year-old girl who is terminally ill

and has decided to take herself off life support in order to end her life faster.

While I am compassionate about her situation and her pain, I am also unsure about whether

she has the authority to speed her death like this.

Pastor John, please help us with this question biblically.

What would you say?

As I've been giving some thought to what I might be able to say that would be helpful

in this regard to the Jericho Bolin situation and her incredible suffering, I've thought

that perhaps I won't rehearse the arguments, at least not all of the arguments, for why

no human being should take his own life, since I've tried to do that in several other

places.

Give those biblical foundations, like a couple of years ago, there was another situation

where we tried to deal with that.

People can go to the website to design.org and type in Euthanasian.

There was four or five podcasts and articles there about it.

Instead, I thought I might be more helpful if I briefly address only one of the absolutely

crucial underlying issues, namely the way that God intends for a Christian to deal with

ongoing pain.

This is one of the huge reasons, probably the biggest reason that people desperately want

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