Im really undecided. Although deep down i think you would know what to do if the time were to occur. The principle seems so straightforward – if they are suffering, kill them to put them out of their pain. But could you order the death of your own parents? Could you live with that? I dont know if I could.

Everyone makes all these claims on how Euthanasia is "playing God". My question is, if someone is lying there, a breathing corpse, is that not also playing God? When it is obvious that this man or woman has no chance of waking up, how is keeping them alive not playing God? I believe if someone wishes to be put to eternal rest, it should be granted to them, instead of making them live in a makeshift Hell. What kind of life is it to be in daily pain, to not be able to function without a junkyard's worth of metal "magic" machines? How is that God's plan? What kind of God would allow someone to suffer so?

euthanasia is a very stick situation. But we must answer one question. What is life? I am a Christian and i believe that there is an eternity after death. And that death is a transition for the soul. this is not to say that death isn't sometimes painful for the victim or the surrounding friends and family. but it is a transition. And if christianity is truth then there are two resting places within this eternity. eternal life and eternal death. i would like to say that we are all going to rest with eternal life as our bed, but i am afraid that is not so. But for me, life will begin after death. If i were the one that had the decision. i would not make any decision of death without knowing his or her eternal security. And even knowing it, i would still have a hard time making any decision.

when our pets are old, to the point if incapacity, or sick, without hope of recovery, or injured, to the point that their lives will be an uphill struggle, we show them the mercy of putting them to sleep, and relieving them of their misery. Why, then, do we deny such compassion to our fellow humans?

I really don’t know, there are people I feel that deserve to die, but do they really? I have been for death penalty, only to get across the point of seriousness. People need to be scared in order to not harm society.

But then you bring up the topic of killing someone who is suffering and I must say, i think they should be killed. Nothing I guess justifies suicide but if you wake up every day and you want to die and that’s all you really want than you should be granted that one wish.

The definition you gave of euthanasia seems sortof like the logic used in this country to make the death penalty what it is today.. The victim or family of the victim will probably endure the psycological suffering and pain forever, so in the interest of vengeance, “healing”, and presummably reduced suffering for the victim or family of the victim, among other things, we kill the criminal.. but is this, in anyway, the same? ...Personally I believe that we do not have the right to take someone elses life.. no matter what the case, who are we to determine someones lifespan? people need to stop playing God and let things happen as they may..

i think it depends, cuz if u are a person that has metastasis or some terminal disease, why are you continue suffering if you dont have any hope of survive, if you have at least one hope of surviving then its bad to do that, but if dont have it why prolong your suffering? for your family to feel ok? no its your life..

Euthanasia is not right at all its the same as commiting suicide, coz no1 can play God but from doing dis is killing ureself wen u r not to an also ur just gona end up in hell! for God is da 1 to choose wen u die not us, an from wat ive been taught through my religion ppl who do suffer its like a test u cud say for dem , to get through it an not fink abt killing urself coz dats up2 God. oh well da truth is if u gota end up in hell euthanasia an suicide is a gd way but best is heaven so stay away from all dat!

So much can be gained through ones suffering. One can offer their sufferings for the sake of another’s soul. ‘Tis what I do.

Just one story: A lady friend of mine, who suffered from advanced stages of diabetes, blind, missing a leg, felt so unneeded and useless. I remember, I was her house keeper, a time when her husband wanted to go golfing with some buddy friends. Afraid to leave his wife unattended as she was prone to seizures, one of his buddy friends obliged by asking his wife to sit with her. For some reason this women treated my diabetic friend as though she had some mental problem and ignored her. My friend tried in vain to raise topics that might be engaging, but to no avail. Because she was blind and handicapped I witnessed this often as not unusual treatment for her. I heard rumors from women’s church groups whom my friend was once an active member for years, that she, Norma ,wasn’t all there in the head. This rumor caused very one to becomes standoffish and ignored her.

How unfortunate for those who wouldn’t take time for my friend in her loneliness. She was a most wonderful women, intelligent and a heart of gold. Norma, feeling depressed, poured out her feelings of despair to me. I told her that’s the devil speaking. Nothing more the devil wants then to bring one to wallow in self-pity, to feel unloved and forgetting the one who loves them most, God. As I said above, I said to her, you have more to offer your family and friends through your suffering than otherwise. Such as Christ, our selfless love and prayers can assure their entrance into heaven. God knows what he is doing and he’s given you a heavy burden equal to its value in reward. Would you take a lessor burden for a lessor reward? Obviously, she, a strong women would not. I ask her if she wouldn’t mind offering some of her suffering for my sake, as well. Courageously this women held firm to pray and I witnessed her spiritual growth.

In the end God had a way of making her known and loved. I got a call while having a gathering of women from church in my home that Norma had died. We all gathered to prayer for her then planed what we would do to help at her funeral. For a women who felt useless and unloved and hardly a visit from anyone for years; well, the large church was packed full and to everyone’s including her own families amazement. The priest who administered to her in her final hours got to discover the spiritual grace within her soul. He spoke at her funeral, of how he hadn’t realized such saintliness in any one person and how he’d became so enlightened by her.

We pulled off a grand reception and miraculously enough food appeared from seemingly nowhere. Her family members were in complete, awe. God is like that with his faithful, yes He is.

If only one knew the value in suffering. It atones for sins committed for ourselves as well as others. Perhaps your burden is taking care of someone who for instance suffers from Alzheimers. In just the same way you the care taker carries the burden for which much beneficial grace can be gained when done for love of God.

Who knows, perhaps one is in long suffering for reasons only God knows, but in the end it is really up to God when we must go. In the mean time, don’t labor the heart over life’s burdens but know there are graces to be gained for which much good will be accomplished. The root of willful suffering stems from love. Love seeds itself and is the mustard seed which grows to become the largest of shrubs. Jesus is this mustard seed that has grown in the hearts and minds of mankind for over 2000 years. We can be the mustard seed of love to carry on throughout generations in our own families. No on Euthanasia

Some people consider Euthanasia to be the same as assisted suicide, however, there is a fundamental difference between those two ways to die. Euthanasia means that the life of a suffering person is ended in a minimally painful way AND that a third party, like a physician, ends the life. For example, if a lethal injection is given to the patient and it is not the patient himself but the clinician who pushes the switch to trigger the injection, the act would be defined as Euthanasia. Yet if it is the patient himself who would, in this case, push the switch, it would be assisted suicide. Few countries allow Euthanasia or assisted suicide. Oregon, for example, permits assisted suicide only, whereas The Netherlands and Belgium permit both. There are many different views on Euthanasia, there are arguments against it and arguments supporting it. I will present some of each side now. Let's start with the Euthanasia-supporting ones: Proponents say to their defense that they would only apply Euthanasia out of compassion for people that suffer unbearably from diseases. They think that Cancer victims, along with AIDS sufferers and people with Alzheimer’s Disease, means terminally ill people, are the most likely to need Euthanasia because it is just more merciful for them to die in a minimally painful way than suffering for months and withering away slowly. People should not have to suffer needlessly when they have to die anyway, eventually. In a case of terminally ill children, for example, some parents would certainly choose to consent to euthanizing their child and thereby be able to get over it quicklier than if they had to wait for a long time and see their child wither away all the time until it finally dies. Now, let's get to the opinions of people who are against Euthanasia. The main reasons given for not legalising Euthanasia are that it is: 1. Unnecessary – because alternative treatments exist, for example treatments to decrease the pain that the patient is suffering; 2. Dangerous – putting vulnerable people at risk, because the people involved could be acting in bad faith; 3. Wrong – contrary to all historical codes of ethics because, to the point, it is just homicide, means that someone is killed by someone else. They also think that to change the law and legalize Euthanasia would mean that pressure, whether real or imagined, is felt by sick, disabled and elderly people to request early death. In conclusion, I think that all the arguments proposed are expedient and well thought-out; and that there is certainly something veritable about all of them. I tend to disapprove of Euthanasia because I think it is just realistic to say that there would be a great lot of danger if Euthanasia is used involuntarily, upon a surrogate's decision. I also think that there are ways to reduce a terminally ill patient's pain and make his/her last chapter in life as comfortable as possible. However, in specific cases, there might be some crucial reason to perform Euthanasia, but this is then a case in which I think a court should decide what is to do.

Depends on the situation I suppose

When a person who can conquer themselves enough to be fully willing and determined to leave this Earth, whether to escape the pains of our world and to enter their view of the world to follow, fervently asks for this transition to be carried out for him/her it is indeed an act of love that one must give to a person who desires the end of a life that has unfortunately passed beyond their ability to continue it on their own. A world without euthanasia, a world without the sense to reckognize a person’s right to their own life, a world where technology can strap an already immobile person into a small white bed in a small white room with tubes and needles connecting them to large medical machines as long as their heart is technically still beating is a horrific nightmare of mine. In the far furture we as a society will be able to sustain life a lot longer than is possible nowadays and many of us will wish that when push comes to shove, that somebody loves us enough to drown us with their mercy so that we may finally wake up… alive.