Welcome to the podcast Think Bibically. I'm your host Sean McDowell, professor of

apologetics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Today we're

here with the guests that our regular listeners will recognize because we've had them University. your book, The Death of Humanity, and we interact with it a while back, but today we want to talk

about a subject.

You have been researching a ton, and because you're a historian of European history at California State University Stanislaus and the author of a number of books,

I think you bring a really interesting perspective to this issue, and it's really the question of euthanasia.

Now before we get into some of the parti... and it's really the question of euthanasia.

Now before we get into some of the particulars of how this has changed

and why this movement is so significant today,

can you just give us a definition,

what is euthanasia so we're on the same page and first off

welcome to show thanks for joining us. Yeah thanks for having me here. Uh

euthanasia the word itself comes from the Greek roots that meet a good death

and actually the the meaning of the word changed in the course of the 19th century and today it means

the killing of people who deem their lives to be over or for one reason or other consider themselves to their lives to no longer have value.

It's very often closely associated with assisted suicide, which is a closely related theme in which I'm also working on as well.

So what's the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?

Usually the way it's distinguished today is that

assisted suicide is when a physician gives a person something with which to kill

themselves but that person takes it themselves.

Okay.

Euthanasia is when the physician actually injects them with a drug to kill them.

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