Some time ago, I watched tapes of Bill Moyer's series on "Death and Dying" for PBS. I highly recommend the series to all who are interested in end-of-life issues. It does not enter into a discussion of Christian or biblical theology, but it is an excellent tool to prompt discussion among individuals or church groups. It is also an excellent teaching tool for all
who are or will be caring for aged parents or relatives. I passed the tapes on to my children. You may want to do the same.

The following are some quotations gleaned from other various sources.

• Suicide seems to me the supreme blasphemy against God and man and beast and vegetable: the attack not upon a life, but upon life itself; the murder of the universe.
  (G.K. Chesterton, "On Suicide: North and South," in All I Survey: A Book of Essays, 1993 rpt. 1967, p. 174.)
• "I came that they might have life, and have it abundantly." (John 10:10).
• "Will we know where to stop, will we be able to draw the essential line between therapeutic and eugenic gene surgery?"
  (Prof. Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of the Commonwealth, in an address at Windsor Castle, 1999).
• "See now that I, even I, am he,
  and there is no god beside me;
  I kill and I make alive;
  I wound and I heal;
  And there is none that can deliver out of my hand. (Deut. 32:39).
• Bill Clinton got the legacy he was looking for. On his third day in office, he issued an executive order to get the ball rolling on the approval of the abortion pill. Nearly eight years later, President Clinton got what he wanted, and the losers in his victory are women and children all across the country ...Congratulations Mr. Clinton: you never cease to amaze us in your quest to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare'
  .(Chairman J.C. Watts, R-Okla. qtd. In a House Republican Conference Press Release. 9.28.00).
• "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not die. For God knows when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Gen. 3:4).
• Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has decided to warn doctors and their patients about the link between induced abortion and breast cancer: 'Exhaustive studies encompassing hundreds of thousands of women suggest that those who terminate pregnancies run a 30% greater risk of breast cancers ...Examining 38 separate studies [researchers in the U.S.] found that 24,500 cases of breast cancer were attributable to abortion.
  .London Daily Mail, Aug. 13, 2000. (Reported in University For Life Pro Vita newsletter, October 2000).
• "Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under... Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more'." (Matt. 2:16-18).
• When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 28, 1999, in a 5-4 decision, in Stenberg v. Carhart, that Nebraska's Law banning partial birth abortion was unconstitutional, many notable comments followed. Justice Thomas: "The court's abortion jurisprudence is a particularly virulent strain of constitutional exegesis." Justice Scalia: "The notion that the Constitution ...prohibits the states from simply banning this visibly brutal means of eliminating our half-born posterity is quite simply absurd...I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg vs. Carhart, will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this court's jurisprudence beside Karematsu and Dred Scott, i.e. overturned." Representative Ronnie Shows, D-Miss.: the ruling "shakes the sacredness of life to its very foundation." Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore: "It is inconceivable that the highest court in our land could find that our Constitution protects the brutal destruction of innocents almost fully delivered."
  (Taken from UFK Pro Vita newsletter, October 2000).
• "You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality...Justice, and only justice you shall follow, that you may live..." (Deut. 16:19, 20).
• O you, who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth...Seek good, and not evil, that you may live. .Amos 5:7, 14
• "For the Lord is a God of justice." (Isa. 30:18).
• The Lord is slow to anger and of great might, but the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. (Nahum 1:3).
• "He has showed you, Adam, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Mic. 6:8).
• 'Surely I am coming soon.' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (Rev. 22:20).

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