Over the ages of civilization, one issue has been consistent over all cultural, social, and ethnic lines: human disease and decay have remained constant. Though this is morbid observation, it is a clear understanding that many wish to find a way to escape this inevitable truth in their lives. What many patients and caretakers are attempting to turn to is a remedy of grand proportions that will revolutionize ideas of human life and death. Dignity has become a clear buzzword for the insistence that euthanasia is a way in which people can die on their own terms without losing their freedom of choice. The dangers warned of by people against euthanasia are in fear of a slippery slope that inevitably leads to a sort of death by proxy and the determination of a person’s worth. Euthanasia will only be understood holistically if there is an attempt to understand both sides of the argument, a realization that this is a complex issue, and that biblical wisdom is needed to make a decision on such an issue.
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If Christ followers resist to speak on the movement, there will be the assumed idea that it is acceptable within this community also. Throughout the ages of Christianity’s impact on the world, there has been a great attempt to celebrate and be aware of the importance of human life and its eternal value. In Matthew 9:36, it shows the way Christ looks at the helpless when it writes, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd” (ESV). Christians must understand that in giving help to the helpless, this does not necessarily mean giving them all that they desire. Rather, there must be an understanding that what people who ask for euthanasia need is not the fulfillment of their wish, but a redirection towards the light of Christ even when it is not
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If Christ followers resist to speak on the movement, there will be the assumed idea that it is acceptable within this community also. Throughout the ages of Christianity’s impact on the world, there has been a great attempt to celebrate and be aware of the importance of human life and its eternal value. In Matthew 9:36, it shows the way Christ looks at the helpless when it writes, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd” (ESV). Christians must understand that in giving help to the helpless, this does not necessarily mean giving them all that they desire. Rather, there must be an understanding that what people who ask for euthanasia need is not the fulfillment of their wish, but a redirection towards the light of Christ even when it is not