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M.Magdalene -> Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/11/2008 4:09:55 PM)

If people actually consider suicide as being an acceptable, forgiven option for a person suffering from mental illness then...

This would pose another question: Do you feel they should allow assisted suicides in hospitals say if someone is suffering terribly and just wants to die instead of prolonging the suffering. It is a tough moral question. I work in a hospital and we string people along with all our great technology for months even years where they are confined to a bed waiting to die in suffering and perhaps are just kept alive with a feeding tube. The question is coming and us Christians need to know where we stand. We really don’t want to damn people to hell hmmmm..

What about Job - wasn't he a trouper for God...



DustyLady -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/11/2008 8:27:29 PM)

Assisted suicide -- no.

Allowing a person to with-hold medically prescribed or recommended treatment -- certainly.

I've worked in nursing homes for years. A person has the right to refuse any treatment, from taking an aspirin to the insertion of a feeding tube. And I have no problem with supporting that right.

As for whether euthanasia is forgivable -- all sins are, if you just repent and ask.

Dusty



humbleinspirit -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/11/2008 8:28:39 PM)

I agree, and on the "is suicide forgivable" or not, I do not think that it can be held against you if you do not rationally "know what you are doing".



DaveW -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/12/2008 6:36:08 AM)

Is murder forgiven? Yes. Only sin needs to be forgiven and the OP question then agrees that euthenasia is sin.

Sin should be avoided.



tenfour -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/12/2008 7:10:33 PM)

Does withholding treatment count as euthanasia? As medicine continues to improve, we'll be able to keep people living longer and longer, no matter how painful it is. It would be cruel and wrong to force people to stay alive when their body is ready to naturally die and they are ready to as well.

If a future technology comes out that allows anyone to extend their life by 100 years, but that life would be spent incapacitated, eating through a tube, and not moving, would it then be a sin to choose a natural death because a longer, unnatural life is possible?



drmark -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/12/2008 9:40:18 PM)

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Does withholding treatment count as euthanasia?
This is called "passive" euthanasia and considered by many to be ethical compared to "active" termination of life. The intention and end result is the same, so one wonders about the ethics of such inaction.

May I suggest a great resource for exploring end-of-life issues (and any bioethical concerns). I will link the section on End of Life at cbhd.org for your convenience.



tenfour -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/13/2008 12:39:44 AM)

So would you consider it passive euthanasia not to force someone to take a feeding tube? There may come a time in the future where anyone's life can be prolonged indefinitely through such means. If that happens, should everyone be forced to feed through a tube indefinitely?



tenfour -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/13/2008 12:42:57 AM)

Here's an alternate scenario. If you've seen the movie of Last of the Mohicans, there is a scene where a man is being burned alive on a stake. The hero shoots him dead from a distance to spare him the agony of the fire. This is euthanasia, but is it necessarily wrong?



drmark -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/13/2008 8:22:00 AM)

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So would you consider it passive euthanasia not to force someone to take a feeding tube?
This shows the importance of have a Living Will directive in place before our loved ones are forced into making difficult decisions on our behalf.



DaveW -> RE: Is euthanasia forgiven... (5/13/2008 10:32:00 AM)

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ORIGINAL: tenfour

If you've seen the movie of Last of the Mohicans, there is a scene where a man is being burned alive on a stake. The hero shoots him dead from a distance to spare him the agony of the fire. This is euthanasia, but is it necessarily wrong?
And if the person is not a believer, he gets sent into even worse agony from the flames of hell.

In reality that does not help much. It only puts him out of someone else seeing him in pain.



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