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Pastors are among the volunteers who will administer the End-of-Life Consultation program — an assisted-suicide effort in California. [[[Those involved insist they aren't breaking the law. ]]]Ron Prentice, executive director of the California Family Council, said there's a higher law that must be respected.“For certain clergy to think that God’s interest in the whole of life somehow dissipates when terminal illness comes is ridiculous, and certainly not biblical," he told Family News in Focus. “The way God has set up life is certainly to regard life at every stage with the highest degree of respect.”The consultation program leaves Focus on the Family Action senior bioethics analyst Carrie Gordon Earll with more questions than answers.“Where are the drugs coming from?" she asked. "What do they mean by 'monitor the patients'? What are they going to do if something goes wrong — are they going to call 911 or are they going to put a pillow over their face and suffocate them?”Earll said most people who choose assisted suicide have seen or fear a long, drawn-out, painful death.“Today’s palliative-care and symptom-management techniques are able to take care of those issues," she said. "We need to be turning to palliative care, not turning to so-called clergy who want to supervise and monitor people as they die.”As in the days of Noah....
