No, not in itself. Catholic, Orthodox and many Protestant churches teach that a patient may stop a treatment whose burdens outweigh its benefits, and that doing so is not suicide. What they forbid is ending a life on purpose. The Bible does not mention dialysis, but it forbids murder (Exodus 20:13). For a patient worn out by the machine, or a family keeping watch beside the bed, that line matters. Scripture knows there is “a time to be born, and…

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