He participated in his wife's murder.
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Tell that to your Creator,"Reverend".Feel free to ignore this if you're one of those recently minted atheist Anglicans.
People with severe MS live in severe pain. Suicide is common.I can’t make a judgement on this.
How can you call it murder if her active participation was a key ingredient? All he did was refrain from stopping her, and had he done so she would no doubt have found a way to kill herself anyway.
A retired minister? What a shame! Even religious clergy seem to have forgotten “Thou Shall Not Kill”. He could have declined taking her, putting faith in God. Instead, he took his wife overseas to be killed. He did assist in her death, but unfortunately, he found a place in the world where it is perfectly legal to do so. :(
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I’m glad he is retired, not that there aren’t plenty more like him in the Anglican clergy, unfortunately.
I was assuming she was an old lady, until I came to her age, 38. I’m wondering how old he is. Did he marry a much younger wife, or did he resign from the church at an early age?
The traditional Christian view of suicide is that it is self-murder. Indeed, suicide is worse than murder because it usually leaves no time or opportunity to repent. So a suicide goes to Judgment straight from having murdered himself.
The husband and the Swiss doctors are, if not murderers, complicit in murder. It is not the proper role of a Christian husband, still less a Christian pastor, to encourage his wife to kill herself and possibly damn herself.
Christianity also teaches us not to judge. We can all hope that this woman will be forgiven in the next life. But that hope for forgiveness would hardly entitle any of us to help kill her, or to do anything that might encourage anyone else to imitate her sad example.
This husband apparently has not only manage to expedite his wife’s suicide; he has also ensured that any other Canadians who want to kill themselves, and have the money for a trip to Switzerland, can do so without fear of legal consequences.