christian response to Euthanasia
...ly we are responsible for our own bodies. If it is our express wish, why can't we be mercifully assisted to die when ill health becomes too much? 'The days of our life are 70 or perhaps 80 years if we are strong. We know we are born to die, so why all the fuss? God is contradictory in nature. This is expressed succinctly by the Muslim Sufis in their saying 'For every rule there is an exception' one of the exceptions to the rule that you shall do no murder might actually be voluntary euthanasia, both active and passive Universalism Some people fear that they may go to hell if they suicide, but the theory of Universalism holds that all people will be saved. While orthodox Christian doctrine teaches the finality of heaven and hell, some Christians consider this contradicts an understanding of God as Love, a God who would never create people knowing they were destined to eternal punishment or ever abandon them. Further, if the message of the cross is really a 'full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world' then universal salvation must be a real possibility. Equally the joy of heaven will not be complete while anyone is excluded. Most Christians would argue that since life is given by God it is only God who has the right to take life away. However many Christians would argue that since it is possible for modern medicine to keep a person artificially alive there should be the possibility to "turn the machines off" if a person is clinically or brain dead. Euthanasia questions the role that the elderly, infirm and handicapped have in our society. Because the care of the elderly is an important part of this, is euthanasia helping peopl...