Christian churches long have conducted ceremonies for baptisms, marriages, funerals and more.
Some are more liturgical, with specified Bible verses to be quoted, while others are much more informal.
Now there’s a new one: From a “Christian” church that says it’s not actually endorsing the killing, there’s liturgy for those people who soon will be dead under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, which already is being blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.
A report at Not the Bee was bluntly condemning, stating, “The resource (Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying) makes clear that the church is, at best, wishy-washy on the issue of euthanasia, making clear that they aren’t judging the murderous/suicidal medical procedure one way or the other.”
Ken Ham, the famed Australian Christian apologist who founded Answers in Genesis and brought to life the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter promoting the Bible, and who has authored dozens of books, went further.
The project, he said, “certainly appears compassionate, but only because they use euphemisms to obscure what is really happening: A physician is murdering a patient. Just because the patient has requested to be murdered doesn’t make murder okay! In a fallen world, we will all suffer, but we do not hold the authority of life and death over our own bodies. We are not autonomous. God is our Creator, and He holds our lives in His hands and has sovereignly written in our book the number of our days.
“We look to Him, not our own fallible human wisdom, for what is right and good. Whether they want to admit it or not, a euthanasia liturgy is the church blessing the choice of self-murder. It is the church condoning evil.”
A Canadian church just released a euthanasia liturgy!
As Canada allows more and more people to opt for “MAiD”—Medical Assistance in Dying, their government euthanasia program—churches are faced with a pastoral problem: What do you do if someone in your church decides to end their…— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) August 19, 2026
Canada several years back created the “MAiD,” Medical Assistance in Dying program, and patients now are being offered that program routinely even if they have nothing more than an injury, or pain.
The liturgy is from the Anglican Church of Canada.
Not the Bee pointed out that the church document claims not to “enter into the ethical arguments … nor to provide a moral argument for or against MAiD.”
Ham translated the message: “It might be right; it might be wrong. Who are we to say? But here’s a resource to give you prayers and Scripture readings at the bedside of someone ending their own life.”
The promoters say, “People who choose MAiD freely and without coercion may indeed be ready to go. They have been living with and suffering through complex health challenges and they want the pain to stop. They want to be able to sleep. They desperately do not want their families and loved ones to watch and wait, wondering how much longer? They have exhausted all medical options, and they know, everyone knows, that there is no cure. Some wish, most of all, not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well. Some, who are Christian, also desire not to be alone at the time of their death, and to die well, and with the grace and blessing of God and with the presence of the Church at their side.”
Ham pointed out, “That reads an awful lot like a stamp of approval on MAiD from the writers of this liturgical guide! The guide then gives prayers, confessions, and Scripture readings, along with instructions for communion, to be administered before and after the physician gives the lethal injection and the person’s life ends.
“This guidance is an example of someone using the Bible and very Christian-sounding language without actually believing the Bible or having their worldview shaped by Scripture. They have an ‘appearance of godliness’ in their Christianized language, but in reality, they are claiming that it is a person’s choice whether or not to end their own life and pastors have a duty to be there when that person dies to walk them through it—not to persuade them otherwise or show them from God’s Word that murder is wrong but to participate in their death…”
Ham said, “Those who are suffering need palliative care from the medical profession—not a lethal injection—and compassion, kindness, and love from the church (and the gospel if they don’t know Christ!). What they don’t need is approval of a sinful choice that takes control into our own hands instead of trusting in the Creator who numbers our days.”
Editor’s Note: Be forewarned about language in the following:
I think the aspect of the liturgy that makes me most viscerally upset is that it includes laying on of hands, anointing, and prayers for bodily healing in Christ’s name…shortly before the person prayed for will be killed, by choice, by their doctors. pic.twitter.com/46JFKnDSBE
— Ben Crosby ⚓️ 🦆 (@benjamindcrosby) June 22, 2026
Not the Bee warned, “Like the devil’s best tricks, it’s all very religious and thoughtful sounding, but in reality it appears to be nothing more than a capitulation to the anti-Christ death cult. And, as all hellish ideas that are Satan-inspired, it won’t stay in just one place for long.”
It pointed out that Australia already is working on a copycat statement:
The Anglican Church of Canada has produced liturgy for euthanasia, and the Uniting Church of Australia is already copying them https://t.co/1uuk9bhNdY. . pic.twitter.com/3NvtouVEPQ
— Murray (@MurrayJCampbell) August 3, 2026
