Euthanasia can never be justified

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c) Euthanasia can never be justified.

Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show that you have thought about different points of view. You must refer to Christianity in your answer.

I totally agree with this statement. Euthanasia can never be justified for many reasons. Human life is a gift from God, we should value it greatly, not destroy it. I agree with the Christian belief that our lives are sacred and are set apart form other lives, we are created in the image of God. God makes each person individually and deliberately so that each one has a value in life. Christians also believe that these individuals are useful members of society at whatever age, so people are wrong when they say “ the elderly deserve to die, they have lived their life” or “the newborn haven’t lived yet, what difference would killing them make?”. Patients who are old or sick, and who are near the end of earthly life have the same value as any other human being and the same applies to the people who have mental or physical handicaps.  The Christian belief in the sanctity of life is one which puts most Christians totally against euthanasia. The sanctity of life is the belief of the fact that human life is sacred and God given.  

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26-28

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 6:19

       Many churches believe that the time before death is a very meaningful and a spiritual time. The process of dying is “spiritually important” and should not be disrupted. If it was disrupted this would interfere with the process of the spirit moving towards God’s kingdom.

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

     

        To say euthanasia is a solution to a terminally ill person’s suffering, is like saying their life is not worthwhile, when it is. All life is valuable. No one should ask for euthanasia because they do not have the right to value themselves or anyone else as worthless. Death is part of the life ...

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