The value of human life: God’s people see life as a gift of his love. Therefore-
- No-one should try to take the life of an innocent person.
- Life is a trust given to a person, talent meant to increase.
- Intentional suicide is as wrong as murder. It is a rejection of God’s plan of love. It is also a refusal to love themselves and others, but sometimes there is no responsibility when the person’s mental state diminishes their blame.
Life is a gift from God. Death is unavoidable. Death should be accepted with dignity and responsibility. Christ said ‘As you did it to one of the last of my brethren, you did it to me.’ (Matthew 25:40). Death opens the door to immortal life. Doctors should be able to push themselves but kindness and charity should be more important.
- Some people nowadays think that old people are not needed and their time is done. This leads them to question weather they are wanted in life but we should treat the oldest person in the world and the youngest person in the world with the same respect. Old people nowadays are forgotten and they are considered as a waste of space. Doctors sometimes think that an old person is taking up one extra bed that could be used for someone who urgently needs help.
Old people should be treated equally and with respect. Therefore-
- No-one has the right to end a person’s life because they are old.
- Death is a natural process and God didn’t create life so that other humans can end it just to make some more space.
- This is known as compulsory euthanasia and the patient has no voice in weather if he/she lives or not.
God gave every one a voice and that voice should be heard no matter the person’s age. ‘Show respect for old people and honour them.’ Leviticus 19:32. By ending their life early you are showing that you don’t honour them and think a lot less of them.
- People nowadays don’t think that family is that important and some don’t have much connection with their relatives. But we should consider the fact that just because their not part of your immediate family they have nothing to do with you. By rejecting your family you are slowly losing your faith and the longer it goes on for the gap grows between your relationship and therefore you are denying your faith.
Some people are not caring for their family and relatives. BUT-
- Rejecting them you are showing you have no love for them.
- They feel unwanted and this could lead to depression and therefore lead to a form of Euthanasia – Suicide.
- God said we should love are neighbours as we love ourselves and by making your family and relatives feel unloved you‘re actually breaking one of the Ten Commandments.
This quote was found in the New Testament and describes what we shouldn’t do with our family and relatives: ‘But if anyone does not care of his relatives especially the members of his own family, he has denied the faith is worse than an unbeliever. Paul’s Letter to Timothy 5:8.’
- God made us to pray in his temple and he says that we are the temple. People think that a temple is just a place to go and pray and they don’t realise that everything we do is in God’s temple. If we kill someone we are killing different parts of the temple and destroying the work God did.
By destroying God’s and our temple we are:
- We are destroying God creation
- Also committing Euthanasia which is breaking the rules of bible
Therefore-
- If we keeping killing each other even if they requested it the temple of God is getting smaller and within some time the population of temple will get to zero. This shows peoples refusal to love other people as well as themselves.
‘Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s Temple and that God’s spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy him, for God’s temple is saved and you are that Temple.’ Corinthians 3:16-17. This quote shows how strongly God feels about people killing each other and illustrates the points I wrote above.
- Some people think euthanasia is right because a person might be getting old and may not attractive. They may feel that there’s no point being alive anymore and therefore they decide to commit compulsory euthanasia or suicide. The opinions of some individuals are that once a person has had their life and doesn’t look appealing anymore they are not the same person.
Some people commit euthanasia because of what they see in the mirror. Therefore-
- If you commit Euthanasia you are killing someone that God has made in his own image
- Human beings were born to age so there should be no reason to commit euthanasia
‘God made man in his own image.’ Genesis 7:27. The Roman Catholic Church believes that life is very precious and is a gift from God. To end life is claimed as murder. Also no human being has the right to ask for someone to cut their life short just because they have aged or done something wrong in their lives. Either does anyone have the right or responsibility of bringing a human life to a sudden and early end.
