Looking at the common sense side of view. In Jesus day or even unto the last 40 to 50 years, most people that are comatose would have died anyway. We put tubes in their arms and feed them to keep them alive when in fact they would have gone to see the Lord long before. It is our technology that merely keeps the body (a mere shell that houses the soul) Alive. Again, in Jesus day all the way up to the last 45 to 50 years they would have died anyway. Was it a sin or an injustice to put them on a machine?
2006-07-26 11:28:26 · 19 answers · asked by chardonn55 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question. Euthanasia is a sin, pulling the plug probably not. This is a good reason to let people close to you know your wishes about artificial life saving measures.If you don't put plugs in them and let them die naturally, then you don't have to make the decision.
2006-07-26 11:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Christian and Bible Teacher, and I strongly believe that to keep a person alive in a comatose state is a sin in itself...especially if the "machines" were turned off the person would pass-away peacefully into the hands of the Lord. Keeping souls alive by machine is CRUEL AND INHUMANE. Years ago I worked in a Nursing Home and took care a this comatose woman named Lucy. They kept her alive by "tube-feeding" through a nasal-gastric tube...and she couldn't move an inch. She was in a "locked-in-syndrom". Everytime I entered the room to clean and bathe her, "tears" were continuously streaming down her cheeks. It took all I had to keep from spilling tears myself because what her "family" was doing to her was both wrong and UNGODLY!!! So, NO, "pilling the plug" is in many cases the only right and HUMAN thing to do which shows MERCY to the suffering souls. If a person CANNOT live apart from the machines...they should allow them to depart this world in peace. And I believe I have the Spirit of Christ on my side.
2006-07-26 11:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by LARRY M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Putting them on a machine is not an injustice because when they at first are put on a machine the doctors usually at that point do not know the status of the individual. However, keeping one on when there is no hope of recovery may possibly be...there is no blanket yes or no to that because each person would view that differently. As for myself I would never want to be kept alive because machines are doing the breathing for me and tubes are feeding me. To me that is not living.. that is merely being biologically alive. To ensure that does not ever happen to me I have taken that decision out of everyone elses hands and created a living will to dictate what will be done in that case.
2006-07-26 11:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Further, it is a sin to pull the plug. He gives or takes life. Machines notwithstanding. It's not up to us. How do you know that machine will take in the first place. Because a man is a cripple, don't you think The Sovereignty of The Highest takes precedence? It is for his purposes and his express pleasure to make this or that appear or go.
2006-07-26 12:39:52 · answer #4 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as sin anymore. The idea of it - to God - was abolished at the cross. Those living under the impression of sin need to change their mind. (this is what repent means)
But morally, if we do everything we can to save a life, and that life ends up not being able to function as it did before the saving, then it should be reversed. No one should have to be forced to live in torture like that.
2006-07-26 11:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by ridethestar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question,I think we are to care for people to the best of our ability's but to trap people with no Life on a machine,and I mean a vegetable person, brain dead, then yes I think we should let
God do his thing with them....unless there is a chance of recovery
with some type of life, as far as brain waves go..so no I wouldn't lable that as a sin....
2006-07-26 11:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The injustice indeed is putting them on a machine in the first place.
2006-07-26 11:31:31 · answer #7 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin aside, it's very selfish to keep someone alive (if they're comatose) simply because you don't have the ability to deal with your grief.
2006-07-26 11:36:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
putting the tubes in the people to make them suffer longer is a sin, and so is euthanasia, but not pulling hte plugs, b/c the people are too weak to make it, and would you really want to live like that anyways
2006-07-26 11:32:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not a sin, but an desperate attempt. It might become a sin if the same state lasts endlessly.
2006-07-26 11:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by ghyunu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋