Explain how a Christian might respond to someone asking for euthanasia to end a painful illness.

The sixth Commandment is "Thou shalt not kill".

The Orthodox Church teaches that euthanasia is the deliberate end of human life, and, as such, must be condemned as murder. However, the progress of medical technology and the various means of artificially sustaining life require that theologians make more precise the Church's approach to the problem of euthanasia and “the right of a person to put an end to his life.” The Fathers of the Church teach that death is unnatural for man, because man was created not for death, but for life. Death, along with suffering and illness, occurs not according to God's will. The catholic church are the most strongly against Euthanasia, there is no active action, although, they accept that sometimes drugs that relieve pain may shorten life.

I think that euthanasia is wrong, yet it depends on the circumstances involved.

• How serious the sufferer is?
• How the family feels of this?
• How the sufferer feels of this?
• How the doctor who will administer the killing feels?

These are all factors, which have to be taken into account. I don’t think euthanasia should be legalised in Britain it is morally wrong.