1999 – Commending the Sentencing of Jack Kevorkian

Whereas, Jack Kevorkian has been convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to ten to twenty-five years in prison in the “physician assisted suicide” of Thomas Youk, and

Whereas, he has by his own admission “assisted” in at least one hundred twenty-nine other such “suicides,” and

Whereas, he has repeatedly violated his Hippocratic oath “to cure and not harm” by routinely killing his victims without verifying their ailment with the victims’ real physicians or family members, and

Whereas, he has openly shown his belligerent disregard for the judicial system by repeatedly threatening to kill himself by starvation if the court found him guilty, and

Whereas he has been historically enamored with Nazi death camp procedures, methodology and experiments, saying they had redeeming value because “similar human experiments can never again be done” and that no experimentation on doomed and/or terminal patients “could be too remote, too simple, too absurd … or too outlandish,” and

Whereas, the Scriptures remind us that though suffering may and ought to be alleviated (Prov. 31:6, 7), at no time may anyone take it upon himself to actively terminate any innocent life as that would be trespassing on God’s domain (Psalms 68:20), and

Whereas, Hebrews 9:27, reminds us “ … as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” so we must not view the time of death as an arbitrary appointment decided by mere man,

Be it therefore resolved that we, the members of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America, meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 22-24, 1999, commend the jury’s courage in arriving at the guilty verdict.

Be it further resolved that we encourage our state and national legislators to repudiate any measures which would legalize “physician-assisted suicides.”

Be it finally resolved that we encourage all Bible believers to willingly inconvenience themselves to become caregivers and prayer warriors on behalf of their loved ones in their sensitive and often lonely final days and actively seek to witness boldly to those who remain unsaved while sharing the Lord’s consolation to those who are resting in the Savior, Jesus Christ.