Euthansia, meaning "easy death," is one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary problems in society. The debate concerns one question: is euthanasia ethical? The case rests on one fundamental moral principle: mercy. Terminally ill patients often request that doctors put them out of their misery. However, because of medicine's new technological xapacities to extend life, the problem has become more controversial. With effective treatments available, there is no justification for committing suicide.One of society's traditional attitdes, expressed morally, legally, philosophically, and religiously is that human life merits special protection. Euthanasia is an unconstitutional, unethical, and senseless act to commit.
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Most religions strictly forbid any form of suicide. The Christian religion has traditionally taught that life is a gift from God. Thus, only God can start a life, and only God should be allowed ro end one. An individual who commits suicide is committing sin. Christianit has traditionally taught that God does not send us any experience we cannot handle. God supports people in suffering, so to actively seek an end to life would appear to represent a lack of trust in God's promise. This contracts with secular arguements that sometimes terminally illness is so painful that is causes life to be an unbearable burden; death represents a relief of intolerable pain for that minority or terminally ill persons who wish to choose it. Neither Muslims, Jews nor Christians find it suggested anywhere in our Holy Scriptures that we may solve the problem of human suffering by eliminating suffering humans.
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Killing is never caring; it is flight from caring, it is the abandonment of caring. Ultimately it is human rejection of God's command to us to care for each other, a rejection born of hopeless mistrust in the caring of God. Euthanasia and suicide constitute an unjustifiable destruction of human life and are not morally permissible.
