RS Coursework
Life and Death
‘Christians think it is always wrong for a person to end a life.’ Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer and discuss more than one viewpoint before making a conclusion.
The taking of one’s own life is called Suicide. One of the most important teachings from the Bible is the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ Exodus 20:13. Many Christians say that killing yourself breaks this commandment and therefore it is wrong for one to kill oneself.
Even if the person was not well and unhappy within themselves a Christian would say that ‘I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ It does not matter if things are going badly- God has made me perfect in ‘his own image and likeness’ and according to his plan, so things are only temporary and are only like this because God has made it like this. A Christian would say that it is wrong for a person to commit suicide in these circumstances because it is only a passing time in the person’s life. God has better plans but they could not cope.
