This episode is about growing support for the legalization of assisted suicide, both in the United States and worldwide, and what Catholic Social Teaching has to say about this news story.

Here are references and additional resources.

1. 2025 Saw Expanded Access to Physician-Assisted Suicide. National Catholic Register article 12/29/2025
2. Catholic bishops speak out as New York governor pledges to sign into law assisted suicide EWTN article 12/17/2025
3. Most Americans Favor Legal Euthanasia Gallup polling article 8/8/2024
4. American support for euthanasia based on ‘false dichotomy,’ Catholic researcher says 8/13/2024 article in response to Gallup poll article referenced above
5. Medical Aid In Dying Is Not Assisted Suicide, Suicide or Euthanasia Online article from a proponent of “Medical Aid in Dying” that objects to the term “Assisted Suicide”
6. Oregon Death With Dignity 2024 Annual Report
7. Catechism of the Catholic Church – scroll down to sections 2276-2283
8. Samaritanus Bonus (Good Samaritan) letter issued in 2020 by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the care of persons in the critical and terminal phases of life.
9. It’s Not Your Life, It’s Not Your Death, It’s Not Your Choice - Bishop Robert Barron article January 4, 2024
10. Is Canada ‘Killing Itself’ With Doctor-Assisted Suicide? September 2025 summary article in Religion Unplugged (no subscription required) and full article in The Atlantic (subscription required)
11. Podcast website with full transcripts for this episode and all other episodes