The difference between active and passive euthanasia are not quite as cruel and malicious as commonly thought. Passive euthanasia is the fairly common practice of withholding medical treatment from a patient whose biological chances of surviving are obsolete. This is often considered to be morally correct. This because the patient or immediate families decide whether life is worth the pain and agony. However, this act of withstanding from medical amenities is quite often more painful than living out you life under medication. Another form of euthanasia is active. This is the deliberate and intentional practice, in which the patient is killed by his own request. This is usually practiced when there is serious physical or mental deterioration due to illness. This practice is thought to be immoral and against doctors motives. Therefore, it is illegal.
Many practicing Christians may and do have problems with this concept. This because of one of the cardinal rules of Christianity and many other religions, "Thou shall not kill." Another conflicting belief is that we are not supposed to interfere with God's doing. However to truly abide by this rule all modern and past medications, vaccines, and so forth, would have to be eliminated. This to me is utterly ridiculous. For one without us "playing god," our natural life span would be seriously reduced as well the quality of the short lives we would be living. I choose to look at it like this, God gave us the brain capacity to produce such wonderful technology, therefore the technology is in fact God's work.
This paper was written before Dr. Kevorkian's famous struggles with the same concept. And although he has continually been tried in court he continues to assist people in their suic
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