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VIEWPOINTS: What does your religion have to say about euthanasia?

Our neighbors to the north are arguing that a ban on doctor-assisted suicide is "outdated."

The British Columbia Court of Appeal's has had the ban for two decades, but according to CBC News, plaintiffs say, "Society's view on the issue has evolved ... and legalization in other jurisdictions, such as Oregon and the Netherlands, provides models for how best to regulate physician-assisted suicide."

Locally, the Washington Death with Dignity Act legalizes physician-assisted dying with certain restrictions.

The issue remains a divisive one. According to the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, and Evangelicals and Catholics tended to be opposed to euthanasia.

We posed the question to our panelists.

What does your religion have to say about euthanasia?

 

Topics: Ethics, Medical Ethics
Beliefs: Interfaith
Tags: doctor-assisted suicide, euthanasia, opinion and doctor assisted suicide, religion and euthanasia

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It’s a personal choice

The conscious choice to allow life to end by voluntary withdrawal of medication is a personal choice for the individual to make. I have no more right to tell someone they must continue to suffer “in hope” of a cure than I have to tell someone they should leave to make room for the rest of the population.
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Death is the Christian’s enemy

“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more,” Proverbs 31:6-7. I've been thinking about this issue since my mother is battling, most likely, terminal cancer if she doesn't get healed.
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A Methodist perspective on euthanasia

Euthanasia is one area in which our United Methodist Book of Discipline makes a definitive statement. However it does so only after thoughtful reflection on the many difficult issues that surround death and dying.
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“I am likely the only contributor who routinely performs euthanasia”

This week’s viewpoint is very meaningful for me. I am likely the only contributor who routinely performs euthanasia. As a veterinarian it is an unpleasant reality of the job.
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