America's Embrace of Assisted Suicide is National Suicide

Many people here in America have heard of assisted suicide and believe that it is something that doesn’t really happen here. It’s the kind of thing you imagine in some dystopian novel or a distant land where human life is treated like a commodity, bartered away in the name of convenience. But most are unaware that several states have already legalized this grotesque practice—and now Democrats in Congress are working overtime to overturn a ban on federal funding for this atrocity, a ban that has stood as a frail but essential line against the tide of nihilism threatening to engulf our nation.

Let’s call this ideology what it is, a worldview utterly devoid of any acknowledgment of God. It is a worldview that sees life—not as a gift entrusted to mankind by its Creator—but as a disposable burden, a mere chemical existence that can be snuffed out when it becomes inconvenient.

It dresses itself up in the language of “compassion” and “dignity,” but beneath its polished rhetoric lies a callous rejection of the sanctity of life. Assisted suicide is not simply a legislative proposal or a controversial medical procedure designed to eliminate a “burden” on society. Rather, it is a theological declaration, a clenched fist raised against the God who gives and sustains life.

What does it even mean to claim the “right” to end one’s own life? Or worse, to bestow upon doctors the authority to become merchants of death? We’re already dealing with this as a nation when it comes to abortion—and God has not blessed us for it. The very notion presumes that life belongs to the individual—a deep contradiction to the revealed Word of our Creator that our lives are not our own.

"And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning... for God made man in His own image," Genesis 9:5–6 says. To embrace assisted suicide is to rob God of His rightful authority, seizing the pen from His hand and rewriting the story He is authoring. It is cosmic plagiarism, plain and simple.

At the federal level, H.R. 8137, the so-called “Patient Access to End of Life Care Act,” is nothing more than a blueprint for institutionalized rebellion against God. By lifting federal restrictions on funding for assisted suicide, this bill would transform what should be unthinkable into a taxpayer-funded industry of despair.