I've only got religious arguments against it, any FOR it that are religious?!
2007-09-23 00:40:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good morning.
yes, many Christians do tend to run with the herd. Please allow me to give you a different Christian perspective.
When a person is lying suffering and dying and death is very very clearly iminently inevitable, is it really right to allow mechanical, man made machines to keep this person alive? I don't think that is the right thing to do.
I think it goes to the heart of the question: are we really prolonging this persons life ... or on the other hand are we selfishly prolonging their death? If it be the latter, then put the person out of their pain and suffering. As far as Biblical validation for this, first, we must remember we are under the Spirit of the law (love) not the letter (legalism) and Jesus said:
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." - Matthew 5:7.
Likewise, there is no law against allowing a dying person to peacefully expire if our trust is altogether in the LORD's goodness, and vice-versa:
"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." - Ecclesiastes 7:1.
2007-09-23 03:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I personally think and believe if someone is on life support and has to resort to a machine to stay alive, then it should be up to the family to decide what they think is right for their family member. Afterall, they would die without the treatment anyways. So let life take it's natural course and let God do the rest!
2007-09-24 01:06:42 · answer #2 · answered by SDC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Jonathon. If a person is dying and God is trying to take them and they want to die, who are we to try to use mechanical devises to keep them alive? That doesn't mean that we should go around pulling the plug on everyone who's dying. But that also doesn't mean that everyone who wants to die should be forced by law to submit to pain, prolonged coma or life support. As he said, it's a matter of the heart. Sometimes one is having more heart and compasion to allow a person to die a natural death. That's my opinion.
A born again Christian here.
2007-09-23 03:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard arguments along the lines of "It's God's will that certain people die and keeping them alive with medicine goes against God's will."
2007-09-23 00:45:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah sure, religious martyrs, that can be considered Darwinian euthanasia because they're putting themselves out of their miserable stupidity.
2007-09-23 00:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Thou Shalt Not KILL!!!!!
2007-09-23 00:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋