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This is a medical ethicist's dilemma - we have extended the duration of life without quality. Kevorkian got it wrong, but the Hemlock Society gets it right. It is about palliative care and having a good death. We cannot terminally extend life. It is common in the last months of life to put all in, to turn it around. It usually lasts only that long and then that's it. This is not an insurance company's decision, to reduce costs, but every individual's decision, who finds themselves at the crossroad.
I think asking about biblical exposition on the subject is akin to inquiring which TP the new testament would support. Charmin? Cottonelle? Angel Soft? It's kind of specious. Water and painkillers with an idea of terminal disease 6 months to 2 years out is not a bad way to go. This is like any other choice of self-determination, and ending life early, like a high cholesterol diet, addicting drugs, a broadly excess, indulgent lifestyle. We do the latter all the time and no one makes a fuss. When we relegate it to the last months of an existence experienced, everyone gets their undies twisted. Please.
Why not just say suicide? Euthanasia is just an alternate form of taking one's own life before God does.
If you are having a discussion against violence in, say, boxing, what do you not just say "sport" as boxing is just an alternative form of sport.
We use the language we do because it is contextual. It allows people know specifically what we are talking about. Just because X and Y are forms of Z, does not means we should simply use the word for Z in all cases.
Suicide is generally a conversation about one taking ones own life, without any assistance, and usually in the context of there being no good arguments against the continuation of that individuals life. The context is usually one of depression and life pressures that break the individual. They do not actually think they WANT to live any longer at the time of their death in most cases.
Euthanasia is generally a conversation in a medical context, with the assistance of medical or other care professionals, and is usually in the context of one reaching the end of ones life anyway but wishing to do so in a manner that they find dignified, comfortable and.... above all.... under _their_ control rather than that of the disease or condition that is ravaging them. They WOULD like to live longer given the right conditions but it is not truely an option available to them.
The two therefore could hardly be more different and hence we use different labels to ensure people know what we are talking about. Merely discussing them all under one label will muddy the waters, usually with intent or agenda.
Sometimes the person with the clearest head is the sick one.
The bible said "love thy neighbor as yourself". What does that mean. Discuss the options with a loved one to find the best solution possible for youz. "best solution" doesn't mean we have to be "happy" about it. But it is only torture if the person being kept alive doesn't want to keep being forced to go on
of course I had to tell my kids once
"easy guys, it was just a sneeze!!!!"
If you are having a discussion against violence in, say, boxing, what do you not just say "sport" as boxing is just an alternative form of sport.
We use the language we do because it is contextual. It allows people know specifically what we are talking about. Just because X and Y are forms of Z, does not means we should simply use the word for Z in all cases.
Suicide is generally a conversation about one taking ones own life, without any assistance, and usually in the context of there being no good arguments against the continuation of that individuals life. The context is usually one of depression and life pressures that break the individual. They do not actually think they WANT to live any longer at the time of their death in most cases.
Euthanasia is generally a conversation in a medical context, with the assistance of medical or other care professionals, and is usually in the context of one reaching the end of ones life anyway but wishing to do so in a manner that they find dignified, comfortable and.... above all.... under _their_ control rather than that of the disease or condition that is ravaging them. They WOULD like to live longer given the right conditions but it is not truely an option available to them.
The two therefore could hardly be more different and hence we use different labels to ensure people know what we are talking about. Merely discussing them all under one label will muddy the waters, usually with intent or agenda.
They are one in the same. Euthanasia is a form of suicide. If God forbids suicide, then so to does He forbid euthanasia. Therefore, euthanasia is sin, just as suicide is sin.
We are called to trust God, not man and allow God to work through us as long as we are on this Earth. Taking your own life is placing yourself above God and denying Him the opportunity to do a great work in your life. Even if you are going to die in a week, you don't know the lives you are going to touch for God in those seven days or if God has a different path fro your life and you live much, much longer.
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