A Look into Euthanasia
Wouldn't it be nice to die peacefully and not suffer? It's bad enough to die, but to go through a lot of pain before dying would just be miserable. Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals, human or animal, in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy. Euthanasia helps ease the pain of the hopelessly suffering. Pain, doesn't that send shivers down your spine when you think of what it causes. Does it make you feel sorry for someone lying there on their death bed suffering? How does it make you feel when they ask you to just let them die? Don't you wish you could ease their suffering a different way? What about someone who has no hope of living, and they're lying there unable to speak because they're in so much pain? I know it breaks my heart to see anything in pain. I wish there was no pain in this world, but there is. There are different ways to cope with pain. Some people take medicine, some just say it's all in their head and if they don't think about it then it doesn't bother them. What about all those people lying in their death beds suffering? Yeah medicine is keeping them alive, but is that
One big dilemma about euthanasia is the moral dilemma that comes along with it. People think that if they do end the life of the person requesting it, then they're a murderer. On the other hand, if they don't do it then they feel that they should have done it to ease the suffering of the person. They believe it just comes down to one thing, what does your heart tells you to do. Those who commit suicide kill themselves. Yes: but of course, that does not mean that all self-killings are suicide. If for example, I inadvertently electrocute myself in amateurishly attempting to repair a piece of electrical equipment, if I was to die as the result of diving from a height into a shallow pool that I thought was deep, then I certainly may be said to have killed myself but to have done so accidentally, not suicidal. (Campbell, Collinson 1) Let's look at euthanasia from a Christian point of view. Obviously different Christians have different perspectives. As a church, they believe "that synod, mindful of the sixth commandment, condemns the wanton or arbitrary destruction of any human being at any state of its development from the point of conception to the point of death" (Christian). Some Christians disagree with this. They say it comes down to the moral dilemma and knowing what the right thing to do
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