What are your thoughts about Euthanasia?

Question

Should it be legalized like so many other Countries have done?

Answer 1

I do not agree with the principle of Euthanasia or mercy killing. Are they trying to imply that God does not have mercy on those people; and that they would rather be the one to apply mercy? That, of course, is unbiblical! That is a way of humiliating God! If someone is still alive, it is because it is not yet their time. It is only God who has the right to take someone's life, as what is written in Deuteronomy 32:39 —

“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”

It is possible that the reason why God is not yet taking someone's life is because He is teaching that person a lesson or two — to probably repent and be righteous. I do not call it mercy killing because that is plain murder! God said, "Thou shall not kill."

Answer 2

I believe that it should be legal. I believe that people should have the right to end their lives in dignity.
There do need to be some safety pre-cautions built into the law though, to protect those who don't really want to die.
Only those people who are terminally ill, with no hope of recovery, (and by recovery I mean being able to live a decent life without constant pain, unless they want it),
should have the choice of Euthanasia.
Depression is NOT a good reason.
Retardation or deformities are NOT good reasons.
Other people making the decision is NOT appropriate.
I think that people should be allowed to put it in a "Living Will" that if they should ever become so ill, as described above that they automatically give their permission, just like you can sign a DNR form now.

Answer 3

I have a really hard time with the idea of euthanasia. I do completely understand the view that people have about not wanting people to suffer, etc.. HOWEVER I think that if it was legalized it would be very hard to control... The system would be abused in my opinion.

I personally find it hard to advocate the idea of helping someone die... BUT I do feel for and understand the situations that people are put in with respect to the whole idea.

I just think that it would set a dangerous precedent to make it legal.

Answer 4

In my 10th grade Honors English class, we were asked to pick a subject for a report. I was 16 years old and chose Euthanasia.

I began my report with the words that life itself is terminal. At some point we all have to die, and that no one here gets out alive. The report went on to include death with dignity, and that we should all be allowed to end our lives when living becomes too painful. Life should be about quality, not quantity.

I was pulled aside by my teacher and asked to see her after class. I couldn't imagine what I had done wrong.

She was crying when she told me that she just had to make this very difficult decision concerning her own mother's illness, and had questioned the decision she made. She thanked me for having the courage to stand up in her classroom and speak on such a controversial subject.

She also thanked me for helping her to see that she had made the right choice.

I've always supported Euthanasia, and I hope my children will do this for me should it become necessary.

Mrs. Morgan is gone now, but we formed a very special bond. She's the person who helped to shape me into the woman I am today.

Answer 5

What about euthanasia? The overriding truth that drives me to the conclusion that God is opposed to euthanasia is His sovereignty. We know that physical death is inevitable (Psalm 89:48; Hebrews 9:27). However, God alone is sovereign over when and how a person's death occurs. Job testifies in Job 30:23, "For I know that You (God) will bring me to death and to the house of meeting for all living." In Psalm 68:20, we read, "God is to us a God of deliverances; and to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death." Ecclesiastes 8:8a declares, "No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death..." God has the final say over death (see also 1 Corinthians 15:26, 54-56; Hebrews 2:9, 14-15; Revelation 21:4). Euthanasia is man's way of trying to usurp that authority from God.

Answer 6

It makes me very nervous.

Many people in this country have and do help others they love to die because they are extremely ill with no hope of long term survival.

Then I look at a friend of mine who developed metastasized breast cancer. It was pretty much a given she was not going to beat it. She took experimental drugs that were working to clear her lesions in her liver and her brain. But the drugs weakened her heart and she died of heart failure.

But the thing of it was she loved life. She loved her children. She had made a decision to fight this will every last ounce of her strength. And she did. She wasn't going to go quietly and she didn't. I admire her more for giving that much to the fight to stay alive then someone who can't bear to keep on and wants to die.

My friend described her self this way.
"If someone gave me a box of horse poop for Christmas, I'd jump into the box and dig around looking for the pony."

To this day I admire her above most other people I have personally known.

Answer 7

Euthanasia of human takes God out of the process of life and death decisions. People never know what is for their own good, which is why they make foolish decisions. Euthanasia is suicide, a sin. the fact that it is assisted suicide makes it no less a sin. All who assist in a euthanasia are murderers in the eyes of God, to include the politicians who legalize it. Speaking of legalization, men cannot legalize sin, that is to say they cannot take the sin out of sin by making sin legal. the commandments of God cannot be made of no affect by men just because they seem inconvenient. God's law is eternal. As far as the suffering issue is concerned, God allows suffering to teach lessons and to encourage people to seek him for relief. He also allows it for purposes of spiritual growth. Death, at the hands of God, is beneficial spiritually for the person, but we are never to take our lives into our own hands because our life is not ours to do with as we please. My life is a gift from God, and whether live or die I live or die to God and God alone.

Answer 8

I just answered your question on esophageal cancer, and you just get that thought out of your head.NO NO NO, to euthanasia, the Bible says (per God) thou shall not kill, and that means you too..there are other ways..all things have a purpose..and you will have to wait and see what your afflictions are with you for. I will have to tell you what my husband discovered his was..EMAIL ME

Answer 9

I honestly don't see why not, people should have the right to die if they have the right to live. Not everyone wants to bare a burden for as long as possible and even cause problems for everyone else. It is still a huge decision to make, but it should be the person's choice and there should be witnesses of course.

Answer 10

I don't think we have the power to let someone die if we have the means to save them, however I think GOD does allow us that if in awhile a person has no chance of quality of life to pull the plug and let them go to thier fianl home in Peace.