There is tremendous debate in our nation over euthanasia, and it will only grow as the numbers of elderly increase. As those who work with the elderly, we are staunchly against the practice of euthanasia . However, we are also deeply troubled by the view that death is something to fix . With the Industrial Age, we began to feel we could fix everything, including death. We can't and we shouldn't.
Death is as natural as life.
We have seen many people being kept alive, if one can call it life, with endless doses of antibiotics, feeding tubes, amputations, resuscitations, and repeated surgeries. They are the equivalent of human stick figures . Unless they have indicated they wanted all available means used to save them, this is wrong. If God wants to perform a miracle of healing, it can be done just as easily without the medical equipment as with it. Again, to be clear.