(Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life) In the following summaries, religious leaders, scholars and ethicists from 16 major American religious groups explain how their faith traditions' teachings address physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and other end-of-life questions. (For an in-depth look at public opinion on end-of-life issues, see "Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments." And for an overview of the political, legal and ethical dimensions of the end-of-life debate, see "To End Our Days.") Assemblies of God The Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States, opposes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The denomination teaches that life...
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