Assisted Suicide

Dear Arno,Your logic on not allowing physician-assisted suicide, is faulty. If we are “never to interfere in God’s ways,” we should not assist accident victims, eradicate pain, take an aspirin for a headache, practice birth control, agree to a flu shot or allow doctors to practice medicine. Of birth, our parents engaged in a conscious act which God allowed; of life, the end is either prolonged by medical means or cut short by injury or illness. Is this God’s will, or man’s intervention? Death occurs when the mind and body give up, but God is still the begetter and finisher of life as He designed it. Who are you to sit in judgment or determine when this end should or should not occur; when modern medicine insists on “playing God” by prolonging life to the nth degree? The New Hippocratic Oath should read: “Since I as a physician do my best to halt death in its tracks and this is not considered ‘Playing God,’ how can I then forbid a terminally ill patient a lethal drug which they request to end their suffering?”Do not play God with human conscience when God has given free will to decide. When hope and medical resources are gone, do not forbid the mercy to die and the drugs which bring it to pass. -M. Wagner, WA


Arno's Answer:


Accidents and sicknesses are not “God’s ways”; it is the way of deceived man who believes the father of lies instead of the God of truth.

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die,” the Bible says. Thus, man continues to die, about a quarter of a million every single day. People who argue for assisted suicide, the legalization of illegal drugs, same-sex marriage, murder of the unborn (abortion), and other such issues often base their claim on hand-picked cases that are the exception, rather than the norm.  

The overwhelming majority of those who die daily, die quietly. Some in pain, others with none. Should doctors interfere in reducing the pain? Of course; that’s what medicine is for.  But these facts do not relate to the legalizing of assisted suicide.  
I am a Christian; my guideline is the Bible. For example, Job’s wife offered suicide advice, “Curse God and die.” Saul ordered his armor-bearer to practice assisted suicide, but that man did not. The most infamous of self-murders is Judas, who hanged himself.

Frankly, you are greatly mistaken by writing that I sit in judgment and attempt to “play God.” That is more in the camp of your philosophy, which is outside the Bible. You have the right and free will to decide the hour of your death; but I will wait until the Lord calls me home.

Midnight Call - 04/2015

Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.

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