The Pagan Book of Living and Dying

"This cycle of birth, growth, death, decay, and regeneration is the basic life-sustaining process on this planet. From the time of the emergence of human beings as a thinking, conscious species, people who have lived embedded in nature have observed these processes in action and have acknowledged our dependence upon them by naming them sacred. They have understood death as a natural part of the cycle of life, and have known, not through faith but through direct observation, that death is the matrix in which new life is born".

"Helping the terminally ill to consciously end their lives is a crime, while denying health care to the living is seen as sound fiscal practice".