At death's window: Famed 'Christian' author helped friend die

At death's window - latimes.com: Anne Lamott wrote, "The man I killed did not want to die, but he no longer felt he had much of a choice. . . . Mel was sort of surprised that as a Christian I so staunchly agreed with him about assisted suicide: I believed that life was a kind of Earth school, so even though assisted suicide meant you were getting out early, before the term ended, you were going to be leaving anyway, so who said it wasn't OK to take an incomplete in the course?"