When we look at the world around us we can see many people going through difficult times. Trying to make every day count as it was their last. Many people just can't take it anymore and finds themselves contemplating suicide thinking that this world would be much better off if they were not in it. When you look at facts in 2013 there were 41,149 suicides in the United States—a rate of 12.6 per 100,000 is equal to 113 suicides each day or one every 13 minutes. Suicide and Euthanasia are never the answer to one’s life. During my time in nursing college you always hear stories about people trying to suicide because they failed their semester exams and they don’t know how to face their parents, in particular, I remember there was this one girl who thought taking her life was better than facing her fears of telling her parents that she did not pass the first year.
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Meilaender says,” Christians have held that suicide is morally wrong because they have seen in it a contradiction of our nature as creatures, an unwillingness to receive life moment by moment from the hand of God without ever regarding it as simply “our” possession.” (Meilaender, 2013) When we look at chapter 6 of “Suicide and Euthanasia” Meilaerder told a story of George Delury and his wife Myrna Lebov in this story George believed that his willingness to help is wife pass was a passionate thing he was doing for his
Meilaender says,” Christians have held that suicide is morally wrong because they have seen in it a contradiction of our nature as creatures, an unwillingness to receive life moment by moment from the hand of God without ever regarding it as simply “our” possession.” (Meilaender, 2013) When we look at chapter 6 of “Suicide and Euthanasia” Meilaerder told a story of George Delury and his wife Myrna Lebov in this story George believed that his willingness to help is wife pass was a passionate thing he was doing for his