Comment on us, do we need “thanaticians” for terminal patients? (Part 1) by Phillip Olsson, MD

Carolyn, I appreciate your comments so much. I think or I hope that most of us of faith would be suitable for one way or another, God will not allow our suffering to be wasted.

In one way or another, a god of love will result in the very goodness of evil. And we agree that it is not for us to decide when someone dies. Our respect for the sacred character of life is unchanging.

However, there is a time when we will die each. How far we, individuals, have chosen to delay that, when death is certain, is a question of individual conscience, and a question that for those of us with faith, we discern with our God.

Ethicians and theologians generally agree, that we are not forced, by dying, to go to each extreme to delay our dying. Individuals are not required for example to use or maintain measures such as fans or dialysis when their state of health is irreversible and otherwise terminal.

Your right to decide that you “suffer from a goal” is the one I will defend and that I leave you to you and to God. However, I can decide (with my God) that when my time comes to die, this more in -depth suffering does not serve a higher objective, and that the suppression of the death of procedures or equipment is coherent with my Christian faith, and that by doing this, I put myself in the hands of my creators. The last moment I pass, will always be up to my God.

Thank you again for your comments Carolyn. These are difficult questions with many gray areas between black and white edges.