Christians, what are your opinions on human euthanasia?

I think terminally ill people who are out of options should be allowed to choose to die. It's not right to allow the people we love to suffer, when we don't let our dogs and cats suffer slow painful deaths. Why would anybody want to see the person they love suffer?

We don't think it should be used to keep down the cost of health care. We do see that the dying deserve support, relief from pain, and the ability to turn down extraordinary medical care.

It is not wrong to turn down dialysis. It is wrong to deny food and water. If relieving pain leads to a weaker heart or an increased chance of death it is not bad. We don't believe that people should be forced to be hooked up to machines and not allowed to die.

We believe in assisting people to live when they do not have a fatal sickness and to refrain from honoring their request for assisted death. There is a line. It is a fuzzy line. In general, any patient has control over his medical care; life is not to be destroyed unnecessarily. The wishes of the patient are to be honored when extraordinary medical procedures are not desired.

Yes.

When a person's quality of life is being affected by serious illness and/or debilitating pain, they should have the right to end their own life in a merciful and painless way. A just and loving God would not call that suicide, as it's not truly living, it's just surviving.

I believe that a person is just a shell, a temporary place holder for our souls, and that our lives are only as good as the quality of happiness and joy we have in this mortal life. When illness takes away our joy, through pain, inability to care for ourselves independently (living through machines, feeding tubes, etc.) then death is a kinder fate and would be a relief.

Assisted suicide is not murder. Murder is when you kill someone against their will, I.E. Sex is Not Rape. Obviously we should not be making these decisions for people, that's why I believe EVERYONE, no matter how young and healthy, should have a living will speaking of their desires. But if someone asks to be assisted in allowing themselves to die peacefully, to be free from terminal illness/pain, it shouldn't be against the law.

They should grow up. Just kidding.

A little known secret is that this is what hospice workers do in the US.

Morphine slows respiration and kills clients quicker. No one tells the caregivers this . I am talking about what is does in the US. Hospice workers will descend upon the client's family and talk about being in denial when actually they are just trying to rush the process.

My spouse is a nurse and really they did this to her mother by encouraging her 87 year old husband to dose her with high amounts of morphine so she died within two days of starting the morphine. We looked up the amounts and her weight and knew they were killing her but who wants to fight family in a crisis like this. It was an ordeal. No one wants to see relatives suffer and disputing with a pack of hospice nurses is futile. Palin may be a whack job but her death panel concerns are valid without

government health care. Medicare and Medicaid pays for the services of hospice so they can manipulate old people into doing what they want right now when they are most vulnerable.

In Holland you can buy suicide kits. I don't know about insurance claims . I think suicide causes problems with collecting from life insurance policies.

People can do what they want to do . The Bible does not address suicide specifically. Jesus chose to die for the sins of humankind and many have been martyred for the faith. All of the apostles were martyred except one , I believe. Judas killed himself after betraying Jesus.

You are on your own to listen to the still small voice of Jesus on this one.

There is no explicit mention of euthanasia in the Scriptures. Certain principles set forth in Scripture do apply, however. Our generation, as never before, is feeling the intensity of that question because of the advances of technology and modern medicine. People are being kept clinically alive who, if left to nature, would die. That raises a whole set of moral questions about which many conscientious physicians are seeking clear guidance.

In principle, the question of euthanasia has been with us as long as there have been suffering people. Obviously, suffering is not a twentieth-century phenomenon; people of all generations have had to deal with pain. Scripture does not contain a statement that allows one to hasten the termination of the life of a person who is suffering. The only passages we have are ones given without comment, for example, when Saul, in the midst of humiliating defeat, asks his armor bearer to help him fall on his own sword. This is a form of euthanasia, but the Scriptures don't indicate God's response to this.

In general the Scriptures strenuously uphold the sanctity of life, and we know that one of the great struggles for the saints in Scripture was their desire to die and not to be allowed to do so. Kierkegaard wrote at length about this being one of the most miserable situations for a person of virtue to be in, to long for death and not be allowed to die.

Moses asked to die; Job asked to die; Jeremiah asked to die. And today many people ask to die. The pattern in Scripture seems to teach that we are not allowed to actively engage in the destruction of human life, even to put someone out of his or her misery. We do make distinctions between active and passive euthanasia. Is it possible to allow people to die naturally, to die with dignity? This question really requires a much more lengthy and detailed statement, but I would say that there are times when it is permissible to allow people to die, to forgo further treatment, for instance, or elect not to be kept alive artificially.

Officially it is against the teaching of the Church and the Commandment not to kill. Some individual Christians may take a different view. I accept the Church's teaching. If given without consent it is murder, if given with consent it is assisting suicide. Suicide is also forbidden by the Christian faith, the teaching is that 'The Lord [alone] gives, the Lord [alone] takes away.'

Anything that imperfect men have control over, it is destined to fail. I would definitely say that corruption would infiltrate and many innocent lives would be taken. We currently have measures in place that take away the pain of those with incurable disease and make the burden less intense.

No one wished to be murdered, but, I hope that when I die a natural death that it will be peaceful and not hurried. I don't wish a painful death, nor a long slow lingering life on tubes, with things up my nose nor not able to eat by myself.. No CPR, no extra things to keep me alive artificially.

humans are animals, why do people think they have a right to put down another animal? Until we start treating our animal brethren like we want to be treated I think humans deserve every hardship they encounter! Its not like a dog chooses to die, with human, unless in the chair, it is a choice, so that's just odd to me. Why any animal does not want to live I find bewildering, BTW I'm not a christian, just had to answer this the title got my attention!

In terms of terminally ill, something that will never be able to be treated or managed and there is no quality of life, of course it should be allowed. In terms of someone who is just depressed, (which there are treatments for now) no, not really.

I think its a choice that should be allowed once all viable treatments have been attempted.