Benedicta Taylor 10RD

How Christians Would Respond To Someone Who Is Thinking About Euthanasia

Euthanasia can be described as mercy killing. It is the act of putting to death a person or animal painlessly. For example a person or animal dying from an incurable disease or painful disease can be put to death slowly and painlessly.

Christians have many ways of showing that Euthanasia is wrong. They also back up their opinions by giving out the disadvantages and giving a biblical quote to the situation.

Christians and the Bible say that God's view on the value of life is that it is God-given. It also says birth and death are part of the life processes which, God has created and that all humans should respect it. Therefore no human being has the authority to take the life of any innocent person, even if that person wants to die.

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In the Christian perspective, human beings are valuable because they are in God's image this genuinely means  human life possesses dignity and value of life because it is created by God in his own image for the distinctive destiny of sharing in God's own life.

Another representation of this is that to advise euthanasia for an individual is to judge that the current life of that individual is not worthwhile. This judgement is also fitting with recognising the worth and dignity of that person to be killed. The Bible also explains that no one has the right to value anyone, ...

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