Euthanasia should be Illegal

: According to Merriam Webster Dictionary: Suicide: the act of killing yourself because you do not want to continue living Therefore I was right in the first round, when I said euthanasia was suicide. Because euthanasia is killing yourself. Period. Euthanasia is ending your life. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary: Euthanasia: the act or practice of killing someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any more suffering. As you can see in the first part of the definition it is "the act or practice of killing" Therefore as I stated before It is murder. Although It does prevent some people from some pain, people are also now doing just to die and end their life. This is wrong and should be illegal. In the following statements I will prove that the bible contradicts euthanasia. After reviewing your profile I saw that you are a Christian thus the bible will be a reliable source in this debate: The Bible does not specifically mention euthanasia, but it does address issues closely related to it. Euthanasia is known by different terms such as mercy killing, assisted suicide, etc. It is the act of assisting someone in his or her own death who is terminally ill, suffering, and in great pain. The goal of the assisted suicide is to prevent the continuation of pain. The Bible tells us that we are not to murder (Exodus 20:13). Murder is the unlawful taking of life, and killing is the lawful taking of life. Technically speaking, if a nation said that euthanasia was legal, then on a human level it would not be murder. But as societies often legislate moral issues in contradiction to the Bible and just because a society might say that euthanasia is good, does not mean that it is. We are to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). We are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26), and it is the Lord God who gives us life (Job 33:4) and who has numbered our days (Job 14:5). This means that God is the sovereign Lord who determines the day that we die. Therefore, we are not to usurp God's authority. In the Bible . . . In the Book of Job when Job is under great distress and in great pain, his wife says to him "'Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die! ' 10 But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. A279;A279;Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity? ' A279;A279;In all this Job did not sin with his lips," (Job 2:9-10). Basically, Job's wife wanted him to euthanize himself to avoid the pain of his life, but Job refused to do so, and in this he did not sin. Heb. 9:27, "And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment. " The Bible tells us that it is God who appoints people to die. Essentially, assisted suicide is an attempt to deny God His sovereign right to appoint who dies when. We must be careful not to take into our own hands the right that belongs to God. There is nothing in the Bible that tells us we must do everything we can to keep someone alive for as long as possible. So, we are not under obligation to prolong the life of someone who is suffering. If someone is terminally ill and in great pain, we should make the person as comfortable as possible during this process of dying. We should not hasten his death. Instead, we should let death take its natural course but make every effort to comfort those who are suffering. Finally, like so many things in the world, when a small compromise is made, many injustices are eventually allowed. If euthanasia is permitted under the emotional and moral claim that it is best for the individual, what is to prevent the government from eventually stepping in and determining who else needs to be terminated? Might the definition of euthanasia be expanded to include those who are suffering from chronic depression--or just don"t like living--or are not productive in society? We must ask that if the door to killing people in their old age is opened, can it ever be closed again? Think about it. The beginning of life is now open to destruction in abortion, and the end of life is now being considered for destruction as well. Like a vise that closes from either end, how many of those in the middle will fall prey to the depravity of man's moral relativism and love affair with sin that always brings death? 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. " Therefore by killing yourself and taking your life into your own hands, you are not setting God in priority. Thus you are choosing Your own ways not Gods Ecclesiastes 7:17 ESV "Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? " This here shows that God is not in control. And that God wants you to live according to his plan Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;" The season of death is in Gods hands and we should leave it to his plan. Ecclesiastes 8:8 ESV "No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. " 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. " 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. " Genesis 9:5-6 ESV "And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. " Romans 12:1 ESV "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. " There are two instances of euthanasia in the Bible. In the first, Abimelech, believing himself to be fatally wounded (with a fractured skull after being hit on the head by a millstone), asks his armour-bearer to kill him to spare him the "indignity" of being killed by a woman (Judges 9:52-55). In the second, an Amalekite despatches the mortally injured Saul, still alive after a failed attempt at suicide (2 Samuel 1:6-9) These two cases demonstrate the two main arguments for euthanasia, autonomy ("death with dignity") and compassion ("release from suffering"). The Bible tells us that human beings are unique amongst God"s creatures in being made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) and it is on this basis, after the flood, that God introduces to all humankind the death penalty for murder (Genesis 9:6,7). The prohibition against killing legally innocent people is later formalised in the sixth commandment, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17). The Hebrew word for "murder" is ratsach (Greek phoneuo) and its meaning is further defined in four main passages in the Pentateuch (Exodus 21:12-14; Leviticus 24:17-21; Numbers 35:16-31; Deuteronomy 19:4-13). These passages resolve any ambiguity for us and give a precise definition of what is prohibited, namely the "intentional killing of an innocent human being" (Exodus 23:7; 2 Kings 21:16; Psalms 106:37,38; Jeremiah 19:4). Euthanasia clearly falls within this biblical definition. There is no provision for compassionate killing, even at the person"s request and there is no recognition of a "right to die" as all human life belongs to God (Psalms 24:1). Our lives are not actually our own. Suicide (and therefore assisted suicide) is therefore equally wrong. Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount that that we should go beyond the mere letter of the sixth commandment to fulfil the very spirit of love on which it is based (Matthew 5:21,22) . We are called to walk in Jesus" footsteps, to be imitators of God, to love as he himself loved (1 John 2:6; Ephesians 5:1,2; John 13:34, 35). Sadly, however, many Christians today are confused about euthanasia and fall prey to emotive hard cases and false dichotomies. It is often argued that we have only two equally undesirable alternatives to choose from - either "living hell" or the euthanasia needle " both of which are imperfect and unloving solutions. But there is a third way - the way of the cross. It calls us to give our whole selves to the love and service of others by expending our time, money and energy in finding compassionate solutions to human suffering (Matthew 22:37-40; Mark 8:34; Philippians 2:4-11; Galatians 6:2, 10). It has found practical shape historically in the hospice movement and in good palliative care pioneered in large part by Christian doctors and nurses. When a person"s physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs are adequately tended to requests for euthanasia are very rare indeed. But the most powerful Christian argument against euthanasia is that death is not the end. God"s intervention through Christ"s death and resurrection for our sins (Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3) means that through the eyes of faith we can look forward to a new world after death with God where there is "no more death or mourning or crying or pain" (Revelation 21:4). For those, however, who do not know God euthanasia is not a "merciful release" at all. It may rather be propelling them towards a judgement for which they are unprepared. It may be the worst thing we could ever do for them! (Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:15) Euthanasia is wrong because God says that it is wrong. Euthanasia should become illegal.