JK Rowling: Assisted suicide is a choice, like salted caramel. Is she right?

The Bible does not explicitly say that people who commit suicide go to hell. In fact, there is no verse in scripture that directly addresses the eternal destination of someone who takes their own life. If you want to be technical...Samson took his own life to take out the philistines.

The whole suicide goin goin to hell is from the catholic church and the belief that self murder is unforgivable cause your dead. But The Apostle Paul teaches in Romans 8:38-39 that absolutely "nothing in all creation" can separate a believer from the love of God. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross paid for the sins of believers—past, present, and future. And the only sin that is unforgivable is blasphmeny against the holy spirit...suicide is not the unforgivable sin.

Much of Christian beliefs do not come from god teaching...but from the personal beliefs of religious leaders

Dublin.Rules.89 said:

The Bible does not explicitly say that people who commit suicide go to hell. In fact, there is no verse in scripture that directly addresses the eternal destination of someone who takes their own life. If you want to be technical...Samson took his own life to take out the philistines.

The whole suicide goin goin to hell is from the catholic church and the belief that self murder is unforgivable cause your dead. But The Apostle Paul teaches in Romans 8:38-39 that absolutely "nothing in all creation" can separate a believer from the love of God. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross paid for the sins of believers—past, present, and future. And the only sin that is unforgivable is blasphmeny against the holy spirit...suicide is not the unforgivable sin.

Much of Christian beliefs do not come from god teaching...but from the personal beliefs of religious leaders

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The concern about self-murder aside (which is a Scriptural concern since obviously we do not want to make ourselves followers of Judas Iscariot, who exemplifies not only betrayal but despair and doing the unthinkable) the main issue is the tendency of people in countries that do legalize doctor-administered homicide is its substitution for legitimate care. After all why waste public resources providing expensive medical care to an elderly person when you can just give them a lethal injection (while in every case from Canada to Belgium also criticizing the United Stated of America for doing the same thing to end the lives of those convicted of aggravated homicide).

the issue is if maid becomes legal then insurance companies will only pay for that option when the cure is too expensive for them, people can underestimate the sociopathy of corporations sometimes

I prefer death by chocolate rather than caramel.

This has become rather personal for me, as I have a 90-year old close relative whom, I think, would choose this. She has three serious illnesses, is utterly exhausted and is frightened of a painful death. I think her son (next of kin) thinks I support Assisted Dying, which I don't. (In fact, as the person who writes our Church's monthly prayer notes, I've been encouraging others to pray against it and praised God when it didn't get through the House of Lords.) I offered to say a prayer for her but she refused it, as she is not a Christian. I'm praying that the Lord reveals His love for her and, hopefully, she is saved and has a natural peaceful death.

So J K Rowling, it is not like choosing salted caramel! (Apologies if this is fake news and you didn't say that.) You only have to see the strain on her son's face, my anxiety about her salvation (and the loving support of those who are praying for her) and her own exhaustion to know that this is a very diificult issue for us, and for the many others in similar circumstances.