It has been reported that a terminally ill cancer victim has died after being euthanized in Vermont.
Lynda Bluestein, a citizen of the state of Connecticut, traveled to Vermont, where euthanasia is legal for those wanting to end their lives because they suffer from a terminal malady.
In Bluestein’s case she had “late stage” Fallopian tube cancer, and at age 75, she simply had enough of the pain and suffering and wanted to end life on her terms.
Originally, the state of Vermont denied her access to legalized euthanasia because she was not a citizen of Vermont.
But, Bluestein and her physician successfully sued Vermont “claiming its residency requirement violates the Constitution’s commerce, equal protection, and privileges and immunities clauses”((“Conn. woman 1st Connecticut woman granted assisted suicide right“)).
While it is somewhat understandable that to prolong life when the person’s physical and mental capacities are all but gone, Ms. Bluestein’s rationale for ending her own life seems a bit stilted.
First, she had survived both breast cancer and melanoma before, and Fallopian tube cancer is not any more terminal than those cancers, unless allowed to get out of control.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, First Stage Fallopian tube cancer treatment has a “90-95% rate of success and Fourth Stage 20%.
So, it is not as though there is absolutely zero hope of recover, even when “late stage” is the diagnosis, as it apparently was for Bluestein.
It would almost seem as if she simply wanted to die and that to make a statement to the rest of the world how proud she was to be doing what she is doing; she was an “activist,” after all, even though an activist for death?
Second, she had stated, “There are people who say, no, you have to suffer. It’s very important for you to wait until God decides that it’s time for you to die. But that’s not my faith. That’s not what I want and that’s not what I believe.”
From the biblical worldview, life is precious and something that ought to be safeguarded, simply because it comes directly from God.
Death is the result of rebelling against God and his commandments; it is a curse that God imposed upon mankind when it decided to act autonomously against God, as Satan duped Adam and Eve into believing that they would be little deities themselves.
When Bluestein admits that her “faith” was not informed by God’s faith that he gifts to the repentant, she was telling the whole world just what kind of deity she was going to be, even if that meant committing suicide.
She was not going to be told what, when, why, how, or where to do anything; instead, she was going to tell everyone else, including God himself, what they were going to do, and if they did not like it, tough.
Well, today, she has received her just reward for all her effort.
She is physically dead.
Unfortunately, amid all the manipulation and litigation, she is still alive, but not where she planned on being upon her decease.
For, once again, her “faith” was not God’s faith, and only those instilled with God’s faith are in God’s presence.
Everyone else is in hell awaiting God’s final judgment, whereby they will be resurrected and reunited with their physical bodies, and then cast headlong in to the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:11-15).
It is something that few seem to think about while implicitly declaring their godhood while suffering whatever ailments that beset them.
It is also something they will have the opportunity to contemplate throughout eternal, as they suffer the wrath of God for making eternal decisions for temporal problems, and then telling God, “I’m doing this my, not Your way.”
