Is Mercy Killing Morally Correct

1. You claim that "they are going to lose their life and most people on death's door don't think of accomplishing anything good because they can't in their state; they think about their last wishes and regrets in life." Two things, one being that miracles do happen and it would be a mistake to end a life when miracles have happened. Second of all, a week is not long at all when you compare it to an eternity of peace. Actually, 100 years of suffering is nothing compared to an eternity of peace. Why end the life of a person when humans have so little time as it is? While it is true that many people don't think about accomplishing anything good, many other people do. People should not just give up because of the state of pain they are in. 2. If I was a doctor, the patient would have already died due to my lack of medical skills. We can discuss bizarre events and rare cases all we want but the fact is that people shouldn't murder themselves just because they are in pain. 3. You had to bring my family member into it didn't you? These are all emotional arguments you are using and they honestly do not have much substance. I personally would want my family member to stick it out until the end. Why should they give up on life when they can spend their last moments with their family? As a Christian I know that my family member would suffer for only a little longer and then spend an eternity in heaven. Their suffering would be nothing compared to what awaited them. 4. "You say morals have no meaning without a god, but atheists have morals and do not believe in god." Yes...but those morals are meaningless since they have not created any ethical standard in which people have to follow. 5. "Let's take this back to history, King Henry VIII killed his wives, why? Because he wanted a new one. He was a christian, and according to the bible, murder is wrong." King Henry was not a true Christian. He abused the churches power to get things he desired and he murdered people. There isn't much else to say here. And yes, the Bible does say that murder is wrong. 6. "And doesn't said bible enforce morality? Yet somehow, the king did it." The Bible condemns immoral behavior and gives people reasons to be moral. The Bible does not have a verse that directly says "God enforces morality." God gives humans the ability to make good and bad choices in order for us to have freewill. 7. My point about the founding fathers was that they acknowledged that rights came from a God and that life was one of those rights. Mercy killing was not encouraged and it is not a right given to people. The bigger picture is that people do not have the right to decide when they die. People do not decide what rights humans have. If so, humans could take away or add rights whenever they wanted and no one could say whether it was right/wrong since it would all be subjective. The founding fathers rightly recognized that only a God could give people unalienable rights. And the right to die wasn't one granted by the Christian God or one granted by the founding fathers. 8. I find your definition of morality very disturbing. Your definition is as follows "correct in the sense of morals according to you." A person could argue anything was moral using this definition and they wouldn't be right or wrong because no universal moral standard would be set in place. We couldn't even say the Hitler was wrong because he merely had a different moral standard than you have. And you could say that your standard was better because you leave morality up to a persons' opinions. You could literally argue anything to be moral and never be wrong if this is the definition you use. Thanks for the quick response. I will eagerly await for the next round.