Hadith, Bukhari
Here again we are informed how dreadful euthanasia is, and what the consequences are if someone performs euthanasia. The human life is accorded great respect in Islam. Allah has made us His vicegerents on earth (Qur’an, 2: 30). Human life is therefore considered inviolable.
"Nor take life which Allah has made sacred except for just cause."
Qur’an, 17: 33
"If a man kills a Believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (forever): and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him."
Qur’an, 4: 93
God warns us by saying that if a person helps another person die then the only thing for him is hell. We as humans can’t figure out how life comes in to this world and then to take it away is a great disrespectable thing towards God as he is the one who created us. According to Islam death is not an end-point but it is a terminal to shift from the temporary abode in this world to the permanent life in the Hereafter. In Islam we have to live for the betterment of all humanity undergoing stress and strain even to the extent of suffering for the reward in the next life. From the Islamic point of view death is a trivial matter. One should neither undergo it in an unnatural way to avoid prolonged suffering nor postpone death artificially with the help of advanced support.
The Prophet Ayyub is the role of others in easing a person's suffering. The wife of Prophet Ayyub stayed with her husband through all calamities and did everything in her power to help and provide for her husband. This shows that Muslims should render services to those in need. This includes visiting sick people, encouraging them to be patient, and praying for them. Indeed, the Prophet (s) has said that visiting a Muslim when he is sick is one of the obligations owed by one Muslim to another Muslim. Relatives have the further obligation of taking care of the sick among them. We as Muslims should take care of one another. We are advised by the prophet to not kill one another and not pushing one another into the jaws of death. The Holy Prophet (s) said:
"No one of you should ever wish for death because of any misfortune that befalls him. Should anyone be sore afflicted, he should say: "Allah, keep me alive so long as life is the better for me, and cause me to die when death is the better for me.'"
Hadith, Bukhari and Muslim
This is because so long as a Believer has life, he or she can keep on doing good deeds, and as long as a sinner has life, he or she has a chance to repent and reform. No one has the right to decide when they will die. God tells accurately using many examples that euthanasia is forbidden and that no Muslim can perform it no matter what situation they are in. Islam also tells us that no person will suffer any more than they can cope with.
“When their time…arrives they cannot tarry for a single hour nor can they go ahead.”
Qur’an 16:61
Nor can a soul die except by Allah's leave, that is a decree with a fixed term. The prophet has said that Muslims should seek treatment for any diseases or illness.
"Seek treatment, subjects of God, for to every illness God has made a cure",
"Your body has a right on you."
If the treatment that the person is going to have cost a lot of money then it is up to the society to provide help for that person. Cost of medical surgery should never a an option for a person to perform euthanasia. From the above we can clearly see that euthanasia is not allowed at all in Islam.
Now I am going to see what Judaism says about euthanasia.
Judaism teaches that all life comes from God
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. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.")
Genesis 1:26-28
Judaism believes that since God created life, only he is permitted to decide when a person should die. Euthanasia is against the teachings of the Jewish scriptures. The Jewish tradition regards the preservation of human life as one of its supreme moral values and forbids doing anything that might shorten life. This is because our lives are not ours to dispose of as we feel like. All life is of infinite value, regardless of its duration or quality, because all human beings are made in the image of God. Judaism believes that saving someone from pain is not a reason to kill them, nor is it to kill your self to stop your self from suffering. But there is a limit to the duty to keep a person alive. It is also acceptable to ask God in prayer to remove a person from their pain and suffering.
"The value of human life is infinite and beyond measure, so that any part of life - even if only an hour or a second - is of precisely the same worth as seventy years of it, just as any fraction of infinity, being indivisible, remains infinite." Lord Jakobovits, former UK Chief Rabbi
So even if a person is a goses, any action that might hasten their death, for example closing the eyes or moving a limb is forbidden. Judaism says that doctors (and patients) have a duty to preserve life, and a doctor must do everything he/she can to save a patient's life - even if the patient doesn't want them to. But this isn't the end of it. There is some freedom for doctors in cases where a patient is terminally ill. Although a doctor cannot do anything that hastens death, "if there is something which is preventing the soul from departing" a doctor can remove whatever is preventing the dying person's soul from departing. In more modern language this means that if something is an impediment to the natural process of death and the patient only survives because of it, it is permitted under Jewish law to withdraw that thing. So if a patient is certain to die, and is only being kept alive by a ventilator, it is permissible to switch off the ventilator since it is impeding the natural process of death. Doctors are commanded to do their best to heal the sick and prevent suffering. So it's OK for a doctor to put a patient through life-endangering treatment if that is likely to extend the patient's life or reduce their pain.
The first example of Jewish euthanasia comes in the Bible
And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abim'elech's head, and crushed his skull.
Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him,
"Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, 'A woman killed him.'"
And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Judges 9:53-54
"But your blood of your lives will I require; ...from the hand of man, from the hand of a person's brother, will I require the life of man."
Genesis 9:5
From the above quote we can see that if a person helps another person die then it is seen as murder. "One who intentionally takes one's life has no share in the world to come." Even the mourning rituals of shiva are not observed and such persons are not buried in proximity to other Jews (though within a Jewish cemetery). If a drug that helps a person to relieve pain e.g. heroin, then that person is allowed knowing that it is addictive. Also if a person refuses to receive medical treatment then they violate the biblical commandments,
"Take therefore good heed to yourself"
(Deuteronomy 4:15)
A person does not have to undergo surgery which will be more painful than the pain they are all ready suffering if it is only going to extend their life time by a short period.
From my research I have found out that Islam and Judaism does not accept euthanasia at all. It is forbidden in both of the 2 religions. I am assuming that euthanasia is not allowed in other religions.
