A short quote from Stanley Hauerwas’s Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press, 2022):

“We dare not forget that care for the dying is one of the essential pastoral tasks Christians enact. Thus my judgment that if in one hundred years Christians are identified as people who do not kill their children or the elderly, we will have done well. Yet what an extraordinary pastoral challenge it is to form and sustain a people who have not let their desires to be compassionate in the face of their neighbors’ suffering turn them into killers.” (104)

Hauerwas has been making this point in various forms and venues for decades, but it remains prescient. It always hits close to home with my students.