are you a volunteer, could you actually love people and not try and "save" them?
can you just love people, watch them decline, die and just be there for them?
does that go against Jesus or Christianity in some way?
2007-11-21 04:36:51 · 9 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The hospice people taking care of my father in his final two weeks were wonderful. They even promised to stop any do-gooders who wouldn't allow him to die as he wished.
The "pro-life" gang didn't know he had passed away until it was too late.
2007-11-21 10:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You qualify your question in that you ask it only of Christians. I haven't been a Christian for many years and don't plan on starting that nonsense ever again. But to answer your question, I can live with the hospice rules because they have been made in good faith. Part of the job of a hospice worker is making the dying person as comfortable as possible and not by attempting to force religious dogma on them. Remember, a hospice is a place for terminally ill patients and so they see dying and death quite frequently.
2007-11-21 16:22:53 · answer #2 · answered by randy_plrm 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If someone were trying to convert me to their religion while I was dying instead of compassionately and nonjudgmentally helping me comes to terms with my life in the way I needed to according to my own beliefs, I would consider it a form of harassment, file a complaint against that person, and request that that person not be involved in my care.
2007-11-21 12:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
as a matter of respect it is the choice of the dying. besides, isn't there a rather vocal contingency of folks out there who believe that salvation only comes through grace?
2007-11-21 12:56:14 · answer #4 · answered by metanoia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
BatGirl could and she would most likely convert people based on her actions and not even need a bible.
2007-11-21 12:41:47 · answer #5 · answered by queen of snarky-yack again 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you don't have to preach to people to save them. you can show them through your Christian Charity and when they ask - how can you be so sweet/loving/serving/caring etc.... all you have to do is say is something like it's easy when you have the love of Christ in your heart. it's not preaching! that might be my Catholic upbringing though -- we are taught we have to LIVE (works) our faith, not just talk it....
2007-11-21 13:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Marysia 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't feel right about it. You wouldn't stand by and smile while your neighbor walks off the edge of a cliff.
2007-11-21 12:41:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They have to, especially if they have to make a living.
2007-11-21 12:41:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I can, and no,it does not.
2007-11-21 12:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋