A Look into Euthanasia

Pain, doesn’t that send shivers down your spine when you think of what it causes. Does it make you feel sorry for someone lying there on their death bed suffering? How does it make you feel when they ask you to just let them die? Don’t you wish you could ease their suffering a different way? What about someone who has no hope of living, and they’re lying there unable to speak because they’re in so much pain? I know it breaks my heart to see anything in pain. I wish there was no pain in this world, but there is. There are different ways to cope with pain. Some people take medicine, some just say it’s all in their head and if they don’t think about it then it doesn’t bother them.

What about all those people lying in their death beds suffering? Yeah medicine is keeping them alive, but is that

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I believe, in a situation like this, if I did end their pain I would consider it murder. (Campbell, Collinson 1)

One big dilemma about euthanasia is the moral dilemma that comes along with it.

Some controversy has been stirred about euthanasia proceeding beyond the moral level of discourse. For example, when they have no hope of living any longer and they’re suffering, it’s okay. I would have to agree with the Christians that believe it comes down to the moral dilemma, and the ones that believe God is in control.

I believe that euthanasia is a good idea under the right circumstance. If for example, I inadvertently electrocute myself in amateurishly attempting to repair a piece of electrical equipment, if I was to die as the result of diving from a height into a shallow pool that I thought was deep, then I certainly may be said to have killed myself but to have done so accidentally, not suicidal. Now if they are in pain and have a chance of living, it would be kind of hard to do. Yes: but of course, that does not mean that all self-killings are suicide. As a church, they believe “that synod, mindful of the sixth commandment, condemns the wanton or arbitrary destruction of any human being at any state of its development from the point of conception to the point of death” (Christian). What about someone who can’t say that they wish to die? The law states that “when a patient cannot consent to withdraw treatment, then the family has the right to make the decision” “The Right to Die”. There are those who oppose the practice of euthanasia. Others believe that God will take care of everything, and all they can do is pray. All they do is lie there, not being able to move.

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