First of all the title is a quote from Dale Denton in Pineapple express. Anyways, on to my topic of today, which is euthanasia. From what I have learned, there is two types of euthanasia. Assisted and unassisted. I'm sure they have better names then that but that is what im going to call them now. Assisted is where a physician will assist a patient in pretty much killing themselves. There are plenty of ways this can occur, and I will not get into all of them becuase some are somewhat nasty and I do not feel as explaining all that. The other type is unassisted(like I said im sure it has a better name). This is where someone may not receive the proper needs to living like being on lifesupport or etc... Even though this basis I have given is not the greatest, I want to get onto my point about euthanasia. My view on unassisted euthanasia is more along the lines of it being immoral. To me, doctors and physicians have the job of making our lives better and healthier, not ending them. So, when I hear of doctors being the ones that would pull you off lifesupport, you are in control of when a person dies. You may want to pull someone off lifesupport becuase they are in a coma and have been in it for awhile. But is that not still life laying in that bed? Is that not still a human being that God has created? Doesnt God have a plan for everyone? My point is that God is the one who should be the one calling them home. One point that is brought up is that the person may want to die because they are in so much pain the just want it all to end. Isaiah 26:3 states: You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. I feel as if you are in so much pain, more than God believes is too bearable for you to handle by yourself, he will call you home or heal you, or do whatever is in His will to better you and His kingdom. For people who play devil's advocate, you may ask me...How I can believe that euthanasia is wrong but capital punishment is okay. Well that sounds like another blog update at a later time.
please, please give me your views and opinions if you read this!
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People can live through anything. I think that if euthanasia had been legal in the United States, doctors would have offered it to my Granny. They told her she had five weeks to live.
ReplyDeleteTo someone who is for euthanasia, they would say that she would have the right to end her life. Why spend five weeks suffering, when instantly you can be killed. But my Granny lived five years. If she had been given the option and taken her life or the doctor took her life with euthanasia, then I would have missed out on five years of deep bonding with her.
Sometimes doctors can be wrong. They make mistakes all the time. They can say to someone, "Oh, you've got cancer you should just end your life and not suffer." But many cancer patients survive. And even if they don't, their battle and struggle to get better inspires people. Yes, they suffer, but it gives the greatest example of perserverance and determination to fight until the end. Euthanasia just seems to be, to me, the easy way out.
-Audrianna
thats a great example. why give up on life when you dont know what God has in planned for you
ReplyDeleteI know. It just makes me feel that if we make euthanasia legal, then we're playing God. Our lives are not our own, they're God's. We don't have the right to give and take life. That tjob belongs to the Creator.
ReplyDeleteHey Tommy! I just want to tell you that I think what are doing is wonderful. You are very insightful and some of the things you've written I'll have to mull over a little to post my thoughts. Keep it up!! And I will get back to you. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, i plan on posting something this weekend on whatever we debate tomorrow in class
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