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if someone is terminally ill and suffering, perhaps it's our duty to set their souls free with euthanasia rather than let satan go on hurting them?
Why would he make children and adults suffer an awful death with cancer? Or to be killed violently in a war, a criminal act of murder, or a car accident? Seriously?
Something called 'Palliative Sedation' sounds interesting, the terminally ill patient is rendered permanently unconscious by drugs and dies in his/her sleep.
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Taking a life prematurely is murder....
Samson, was a suicide.
He's not in Hell.
The NT says that Samson is a "Hero of the Faith".
Which Bible verse says that?
“…he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.” (Leviticus 24:21)
Have you considered passive euthanasia like the example in post #8?
“…he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.” (Leviticus 24:21)
In post #8 that seems to me as letting nature take its course - the correct option.
But what if the suffering person asks to be killed?
Anyway, the soul can't be killed, just the useless body.
Jesus said "The spirit within gives life, the flesh alone is worthless" (John 6:63)
Death is inevitable for every one of us. There is no doubt about the sanctity of life promoted in God’s word, but as the Proverb says....”there is a time to be born and a time to die”....for some, that “time to die” is prolonged by medical intervention, which is not always a bad thing as long as the circumstances are right. Fighting to save a life is a good thing as long as that person has a life to look forward to.It's all about definitions...
Legal definitions and personal definitions.
I don't think letting someone go is euthanasia, it has to be active and I think that might be wrong
I sat with my mother as she died from Myelodysplastic Bone Marrow disease. There is no excuse for 'putting a person down' like an animal. There are ways to minimize suffering. They did that for my mother.Do you really believe that God has anything to do with the way people die? If he does then he is a cruel fiend.
Why would he make children and adults suffer an awful death with cancer? Or to be killed violently in a war, a criminal act of murder, or a car accident? Seriously? Where do you see God in death?
If you have ever sat beside a loved one who was dying, you would move heaven and earth to relieve their suffering......many have, despite the outcome.
There comes a time when the pain meds don't work anymore. If you would put an animal out of its misery, why not more so a human?
I don't believe God intended us to be killing ourselves, but I do believe we will not die until God's time for us to die.What about the people that did successfully commit suicide? Was that Gods will? Surely not.
I know people that have committed suicide and i don't believe it was Gods will
I don’t think that is the argument.....it’s not about putting humans in the same category as an animal, but in not prolonging suffering out of some sense that life has to be preserved at all costs.I sat with my mother as she died from Myelodysplastic Bone Marrow disease. There is no excuse for 'putting a person down' like an animal. There are ways to minimize suffering. They did that for my mother.
The Bible’s position on the sanctity of human life is clear, one of the Ten Commandments was “thou shalt not kill” but the word used there relates to “murder”, so what is murder? Is the one performing an execution under the legal death penalty, a “murderer? Is all “killing” then unlawful from God’s standpoint?I don't believe God intended us to be killing ourselves, but I do believe we will not die until God's time for us to die.
The idea that God intervenes individually in every birth and death does not hold up under investigation.
Does God hold back death from someone suffering unbearable agony? How could our compassionate God do that?