Euthanasia

Some times known as assisted suicide, euthanasia was a topic my high school class discussed very heavily. Euthanasia by definition is the intentional killing of a dependant human for his own alleged benefit. There are many different categories that come in to play with discussing whether or not euthanasia is it ethically right or wrong. There is voluntary, where a person requests to be killed, and there is non-voluntary, when the person killed gave no request or consent and an outside party decides for them. Assisted suicide is when someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide." The most familiar form to me was lethal injection, where they put a fatal dose of drugs into a patients system thereby killing them.

Euthanasia is wrong for many reasons, however the first and foremost is that it rejects the importance of human life and dishonors God's sovereign will. God, the giver and taker of life, has a plan for everyone's life. When we take matters into our own hands and say that we should be able to decide when the best time for us to die is, or make that decision for someone else, we are playing God.

The rising of assisted suicide causes for another worry. There is an argument that soon euthanasia will become non-voluntary. This means that if a patient is coming near death or has some serious health issue that will never be cured, the doctor can decide whether or not to pull the plug.

We have heard story after story about miracles that have happened. People have been mysteriously cured, people have been pronounced dead and than somehow lived. Euthanasia, like I expressed before, is taking matters into our own hands, and could be messing with some wonderful miracle that God has planned for a life. I am not saying that God will miraculously cure everyone, but there is a time to die that He has set aside for us and we should not mess with His plan. He knows what's best for us, why shouldn't we trust him?