It's Wednesday, June 3, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

At times, we just have to take an opportunity, pause, and reflect on something big that's happening,

and understand sometimes numbers really do help to signal when something big is happening.

So here's the big thing. As of a matter of weeks from now, one third of the American population will live where some form of assisted suicide is legal.

So we're talking about a revolution taking place right in our own time. So when I say

right in our own times, I mean, like right now, right in terms of these weeks. Now, of course,

some of this goes back. The state of Oregon was the first, but you also have other states that have come on.

By the time we come to the end of the summer, 13 states that will house about one third of the American population

will offer some form of what is often euphemistically, and I think falsely called medical

assistance or medical aid in dying, but is really assisted suicide. And so as we're thinking

about huge worldview, huge moral issues, it's hard to come up with one bigger than this.

It's hard to come up with a seismic development of greater magnitude than this.

Because we are talking here about life and death.

Now, when we think about the issue of life and death, let's just remember that we're in a society that has been living in denial for a matter of decades now about the reality of life and death.

And that means living in direct

defiance to life as a divine gift, the gift of life coming from God. And so on the first wave,

we saw this among those not yet born. And we're still seeing it, of course, but the subversion of life

and the dignity and sanctity of life before birth came first.

But euthanasia is fast on its heels.

And as a matter of fact, at least in terms of public discussion among the ideological progressives, they've been together all along.

It's just a matter of the political agenda and the calendar.

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