Here in America, do we want to mimic such barbaric behavior? Should we empower our own government and/or its board certified physicians to make such personal permanent decisions for Americans? The reasons will be delineated throughout this paper as to why we answer, “no”. From a medical perspective euthanasia is wrong because it directly violates the Hippocratic Oath that defines the profession. Now let’s look at the physicians to see if they are justified or not in what they do. Are the physicians justified in what they perform? This is a tough question and there are many opinions that we will discuss further in this paper.

However, death is not a pragmatic issue, and predetermining our own time of death is not our choice. Once it is performed, that is the end. When a person takes his or her own lives with or without someone’s help it is suicide and morally suicide is wrong both socially and biblically.

Even in cases of brain death, euthanasia should not be an option. Doctor Joseph Evers says, “To say that a patient on a ventilator, declared brain dead and is certain to die, is no longer a person, is to deny reality. Great care must be taken not to declare a person dead even one moment before death has actually occurred. Death should only be declared after, not before the fact, as to declare death prematurely is to commit a fundamental injustice. A person who is dying is still alive, even a moment before death, and must be treated as such” (cited in Appleby, 2002).

A man named Job, a man of God, was very wealthy and lived in the land of Uz. Job had seven sons and three daughters, owned a great number of cattle and was the greatest man among all the people of the East (Job 1.1-5). He ended up losing all of his possessions, children and was afflicted with disease. Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9). Job had a very good excuse to die because of the pain and suffering he had to deal with. Satan inflicted upon him

patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel” (Hippocrates, 400 BC).

proceedings to stop, but the second request was denied. However, in a revised account of the proceedings that happened made by Dr. Kevorkian, he stated the second request never happened. This finding takes the case out of the realm of assisted suicide and makes it a homicide case. Kevorkian’s lawyers consented that the letter was inaccurate,

For doctors to perform euthanasia, means that they are going against The Oath of Hippocrates which all doctors are required to take. Hippocrates was an early and very influential Greek physician of about the Fifth Century BC. His writings not only had a great impact on the content of Greek medical thought, but also on the ethics of medical practice. This oath says: “I swear by Apollo the physician, Aesculapius, Health, All-heal and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents” (Hippocrates, 400 BC). It also goes on to say, “I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my

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