WOF 371: The Rise of Euthanasia

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Friends, do we have a right to choose how and when we die? Should we be worried about the rapid rise of euthanasia, including in the United States?

Euthanasia has been in the news lately thanks to reports out of Canada, where last year, over 10,000 Canadians ended their lives via euthanasia. Those numbers are sure to go up, as Canada has loosened restrictions so that people can now choose euthanasia not only to avoid pain and suffering in the face of terminal disease, but simply for “mental health reasons.”

On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss these alarming trends and how to make the case that life is worth living.

A listener asks, why does it matter where we go to worship the Lord as long as we’re doing so?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing
0:12.2	director at Word on Fire. Do we have a right to choose how and when we die? Should we be
0:19.4	worried about the rapid rise of euthanasia in the western world, including in the United
0:24.5	States? That's what we'll be discussing today with Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop,
0:29.0	always good to be with you. Hey Brandon, good to be with you. I'm just, I was out in a bottle
0:33.6	a bit this morning in Rochester. I'm not sure when this show will go on, but as we're recording,
0:37.9	it was very beautiful. Sunny, bright blue sky, lots of beautiful snow in the trees on the ground,
0:44.2	and it was two degrees. Sunny and two degrees. Yeah, sunny and two is the forecast for today.
0:52.5	Well, you recently visited another cold climate, which is your home in Chicago. You went back
0:57.2	there for, I think Thanksgiving. While you were there, you had some time in the Word on Fire
1:01.6	Chicago office. How did that go? Yeah, it was lovely. I was there to to baptize my grand
1:06.2	niece and my brother's second grandchild. I baptized her when I was home. While I was there, I went
1:11.2	to the Word on Fire office, which is wonderful. They had to expand. The old one got too small. So it's
1:17.0	about 10 minutes from the airport. So it was very easy to get to and it was terrific. I took the
1:22.0	whole gang out for lunch and didn't see quite everybody because it was around Thanksgiving times.
1:26.9	It's somewhat gone home. But it was a great visit, beautiful office, and to see these mostly young
1:33.2	people with great enthusiasm for the mission. I loved it. I know there's lots of good stuff going
1:39.1	on in your new diocese of Winona Rodchester. We're recording this in mid-December just after a
1:44.8	couple of big liturgical celebrations. One is the feast of our Lady of Guadalupe, and the other
1:49.9	one is Simban Gobi. Tell us about those. How'd those go? They both were great. So of course,
1:55.0	Guadalupe, I've known very well from my time in Chicago and of course in L.A. It's the great
2:02.7	celebration for the Hispanic community. There's a church called St. Francis of Assisi here in
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