Euthanasia

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Dec 19, 2011
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This is a puzzling thought i had after a CPE lesson in school.
Christians oppose Euthanasia yet i support it as i see it as being kind to someone. Would just like to hear other people's opinion on the matter
 
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TexasHallelujahGal

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I did respite/hospice for my granny who raised me we sat down had a talk and she signed a DNR because at 93 the compression's alone would of broken her ribs . this has nothing to do with euthanasia but it does with personal choices requests . She also died in my home surrounded by everyone who loved her and knew her . I would do it again it was exceptional . God was there through it all .
 

PANCAKES

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Well, I'm not sure if it's right or wrong. But what I DO think is wrong is keeping a really old person alive on feeding tubes and Iv's etc..etc... when they clearly are in a state of old age and will naturally die soon. I think it's cold and heartless. On another note, I think one of the reasons why you see Christians opposing euthanasia though is really a matter of not wanting to kill someone before they accept Christ. But now, see if for example I was out in the middle of the desert with my mom (who is saved) and somehow she's suffering from Ebola (horrible nightmarish disease) and she was in a lot of pain, I would ask God in a state of panic to either take her away, or keep her alive and end the disease right here and now. I would beg and plead; and I absolutely know he would do something. God's never left me hanging. Not once. I would do the same for a person who's not saved. and should I be commanded to kill that person on my own, I would do it.
 

Tararose

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It would seem against scripture. God only asked people in the Old Testament to carry out his judgement on unrepentant sinners from pagan nations usually. There are no God decreed examples of suffering people being “put out of their misery” in scripture. However there is no prohibition to remove Life support if that is all that is keeping someone alive as was pointed out above. Humans are made in the image of God and as such it is not our place to take the life of another human in a deliberate premeditated act, even if it appears compassionate to do so. Jobs wife would have gladly euthanised Job judging by what she said “curse God and die”. It would have been murder if she had though, even though Job despaired of His own life.

GotQuestions website (which I am
Not allowed to post a link to as a new member ) Says it well in the following...
We live in what is sometimes described as a “culture of death.” Abortion on demand has been practiced for decades. Now some are seriously proposing infanticide. And euthanasia is promoted as a viable means of solving various social and financial problems. This focus on death as an answer to the world’s problems is a total reversal of the biblical model. Death is an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26). Life is a sacred gift from God (Genesis 2:7). When given the choice between life and death, God told Israel to “choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19). Euthanasia spurns the gift and embraces the curse.

The overriding truth that God is sovereign drives us to the conclusion that euthanasia and assisted suicide are wrong. We know that physical death is inevitable for us mortals (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, “I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.” Ecclesiastes 8:8 declares, “No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death.” God has the final say over death (see 1 Corinthians 15:26, 54–56; Hebrews 2:9, 14–15; Revelation 21:4). Euthanasia and assisted suicide are man’s attempts to usurp that authority from God.

Death is a natural occurrence. Sometimes God allows a person to suffer for a long time before death occurs; other times, a person’s suffering is cut short. No one enjoys suffering, but that does not make it right to determine that a person should die. Often, God’s purposes are made known through suffering. “When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other” (Ecclesiastes 7:14). Romans 5:3 teaches that tribulations bring about perseverance. God cares about those who cry out for death and wish to end their suffering. God gives purpose in life even to the end. Only God knows what is best, and His timing, even in the matter of one’s death, is perfect.

We should never seek to prematurely end a life, but neither must we go to extraordinary means to preserve a life. To actively hasten death is wrong; to passively withhold treatment can also be wrong; but to allow death to occur naturally in a terminally ill person is not necessarily wrong. Anyone facing this issue should pray to God for wisdom (James 1:5). And we should all remember the words of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who warned that the practice of medicine “cannot be both our healer and our killer” (from KOOP, The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, 1991).