Euthanasia: Do you support it or Not!? And Why!?

Question

Please be Honest!
Thanks!

Answer 1

No.

As Christians, we believe that human life is a sacred gift from God to be cherished and respected because every human being is created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26).

In heeding God’s command, "Thou shall not kill" (Exodus 20:13), we recognize that we cannot end of our lives or the lives of others as we please. We must respect and protect the dignity of human from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Euthanasia occurs when a doctor or medical staff person administers a lethal dose of medication with the intention of killing the patient.

Assisted suicide occurs when a doctor or medical staff person prescribes a lethal amount of medication with the intent of helping a person commit suicide. The patient then takes the dose or turns the switch.

We also recognize the need for the proper management of pain. Modern medicine provides effective treatments for pain that guarantees that no one will suffer a painful death. No one needs to escape pain by seeking death.

Suicidal wishes among the terminally ill are due to treatable depression similar to that of other suicidal people. If we address their pain, depression and other problems, then there is generally no more talk of suicide.

Repercussions of Assisted Suicide
+ The patient seriously, possibly completely, damages his or her relationship with God.
+ Anyone assisting a suicide gravely endangers his or her spiritual, psychological, and emotional well-being.
+ Corruption of the medical profession: whose ethical code calls on physicians to serve life and never to kill. The American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and dozens of other medical groups argue that the power to assist in taking patients’ lives is "a power that most health-care professionals do not want and could not control.”
+ Society will more and more disregards the dignity of human life.

Possible Corruptions
+ Exploitation of the marginalized: The poor, the elderly, minorities, those who lack health insurance would be the first to feel pressure to die.
+ Cost control: Patients with long term or expensive illnesses and considered economic liabilities would be encouraged die.
+ Rebirth of historical prejudices: Many able-bodied people, including some physicians, say they would "rather be dead than disabled." Such prejudices could easily lead families, physicians, and society to encourage death for people who are depressed and emotionally vulnerable as they adjust to life with a serious illness or disability.

Jesus uttered the words of faith that continue to inspire and to guide the Church’s teaching in this mystery of Christian death: "This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again" (John 10:17).

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No, noone has the all the mighty decision to take life away. Not even the person who is suffering.

There is a difference between physican assisted suicide, euthanasia, and Do Not Rescutiate.

Answer 3

If you are talking about people,I semi support it. I am a nurse and i carry out the wishes of the doctor. There are times I know a patient won't be able to handle the doses prescribed. I give it anyway. There are times that I look into the bed of the person I have done everything for and still they scream out in pain and agony. I hope the next dose will either help them or kill them. I may be wrong, but they almost always want the same thing. I don't however believe that it's a good idea to euthanize, just because they want to be gone. If you are talking about pets and animals. I don't mind. Not one little bit.

Answer 4

Absolutely! Not for the retarded or inept necessarily, but for the terminally ill. I have no objections to patient-assisted suicide. I saw nothing wrong with euthanizing Terry Schiavo. She was good as dead. I find it ironic how so many people think euthanasia such a horrible atrocity, but the death penalty is acceptable.

Answer 5

If someone is terminally ill and suffering, then why not? They are suffering and going to die anyway. I have never heard a really good moral argument against it, just conjecture based on personal biases and manipulation of the Bible. People say it is wrong, but no one can say why. It is easy for us to pass laws on this, because we're not the ones dying. We're not the ones in great pain or in danger of being a vegetable for our last moments in life. And being that everyone's death is unique and unusual, you can't go by the testimony of the dying that choose to live. One dying person does not know how another dying person feels. So I just don't see how we can question an individual's choice to die under extreme circumstances. We're all going to die. What difference does it really make?

P.S. If it is God's choice and no other's, then when you choose to die, it must be God's choice, too. You can't defeat God, can you? Are you arguing that you can beat God? Are you arguing that God's knowledge of man's death can be changed by the actions of men? I think not! Thus, if a man "chooses" to end his life, ultimately it IS God's decision.

Answer 6

I will tell you something from real life and then give my opinion.

My father suffered greatly before his death. He had cancer of the larynx and could not speak/eat anything for the last few months of his life. He had a powerful personality and liked tasty food and talked well before this happened to him. He didn’t want to die and forcefully rejected any idea that he is going to die. I was with him when he died and saw the despair in his eyes during those last few seconds of his life when he finally understood the end is here.

About 2 months before his death, there was a near death situation. Everybody including his doctor had decided it is BETTER for him to die then, than suffer the horrible situations to come, but nobody expressed this. Doc summoned me to hold his hand as the pulse was coming to and end. In the confusion, I started talking to my father aloud, calling him and this caused something like waking up and the pulse started to rise. He was saved. I saw no relief but something like, “you shouldn’t have done that” in the doc’s eyes.

Later in the last few days of his death, he was bleeding profusely every 12 hours. Almost all blood in his body will drain out; doctors will pump blood in to him again and resuscitate him. One day the doc summoned me and told me, “what is the point in making him suffer like this? Please allow me to stop resuscitating next time this happens. Let the family know and give me your decision”. I called my elder brother abroad and he just said this “If he is conscious, it is NOT OUR decision”. So our decision was, it is not for us or the doctor to decide and it is not right to ask my father whether he wants to die. The doctor is a friend of our family and respected my father.


My father was very conscious until the last second of his life and yearned to live every second of it. He had asked me to bring printouts of his stock and share holding statement to the intensive care unit of the hospital in his death bed. He was totally in control and very much in to life even in his suffering.

Years ago my father jokingly told me, “I will die an easy and painless death as I have diabetes and heart diseases”. (Diabetic patients feel lesser pain during cardiac arrest). I am sure he would have also signed a declaration that he wants Euthanasia at that time. But when the time really came to die, he wanted to cling on to his life despite all suffering.

So my Euthanasia warrant will be something like this: If I cannot communicate and if I am beyond repairs and will die within 4 weeks, I want to die immediately; If I am able to communicate, I will ask for Euthanasia my self.

Answer 7

It's such a tricky question. I mean, on the one hand, how do we know that it's not pain and suffering who speaks out when a person asks to be killed, and, then, a lot of people say "I want to die" or something like this when in pain without meaning it. On the other hand, to see a person suffer day after day in agony and knowing that he/she will die anyway, and not to obliterate the sufferings seems not right either.
I know I would not want to be a person who decided on killing the other person. Even if it was to obliterate that person sufferings.

Answer 8

I believe in having a living will. I believe in pulling the plug if there is no hope. I could not just refuse nourishment via the feeding tube if the patient is pretty much awake and aware. A living will is the answer.

Answer 9

I don't !! because i have seen the people and their attitudes at hospitals.........if the patient is in pain then there are many types of medicine available....Let me explain it to you, I remeber a patient who had strok, infact it was second stroke becuse of diabetes...she was unconsious and in coma..... her daughter was there to take care of her and i had talked to her......She was satisfied that her mom is atleast alive and is there in front of her eyes...and she was thankful for every second her mom lived ! at the end her mom died and she was satisfied that she died of her own death....and she could take care of her enough, According to her, this was so satisfactory for her that she was useful to her mom .... See Sometimes just the presence of that person even if he/she is in coma becomes a great deal for their kids...but i could not decide yet what should we do to those patients who's kids or relatives don't like to take care of them...and there is no way they could be treated due to some ucurable disease ...there sometimes i wish that the person should die soon.....but mercy killing.....I could never make up my mind to accept this......i know this make the patient get rid of pain and suffering but still.......i think its upto God to decide when to call the person back........and doctors are there to reduce the pain and suffering with medication.....I could never resolve this issue btw !!

Answer 10

Yes I do, especially if the person on life support. Some say taking people off life support is playing God, but putting someone on life support when their body cannot sustain them on their own is playing God too.

If someone is suffering and wishes to die (and they probably will soon anyway), I think they should be let go.