Should it be a law, yes because it lines up Biblically. Am I pushing my views and beliefs of other people - well ... No to me pushing my views on anyone since they are Gods views, not mine. My beliefs, well, maybe, but not really since they can still do it. The assistant would have to be wiser in their set up as to not be caught. And the other person, who's going to arrest a dead person? Besides, America WAS established as a Christian nation therefore I have the right to push my beliefs that line up with the Bible on people. Try going to a muslim nation, hindu nation, any other nation founded on a Religious view and try to tell them they can't push their beliefs on someone. It's only that way in America.
I disagree with you on this point. First, the statement that America was founded as a Christian nation isn't exactly true. Yes, it was founded by Christians. However, America was and is intended to be neutral towards religion. Look at what the founders had to say about the topic:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
To say that America is (or was founded as) a Christian nation does not line up with what the founders actually said.
Beyond that, I would ask why you feel the need and the right to push your views on others. If God wanted people to be forced to obey him, he could very easily accomplish that. However, he chooses to give us free will. If God won't force people to obey his commands, what gives me the right to force people to do so? The fact that other religions do so is immaterial -- further, look at the reputation that these religions obtain! The act of pushing your beliefs on someone drives them away; this is the opposite of what we should be doing!
In summary, God doesn't tell us to force our beliefs on others, God doesn't do it himself (in fact, quite the opposite), and doing so can drive others away from Christ. So, why should we do so?
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Euthanasia
From my perspective, the central religious issue with euthanasia is that euthanasia requires a weakening of the sanctity of life. 1 Corinthians describes our bodies as "temples of God" and "temples of the Holy Spirit". Genesis 9 states "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image." Proverbs 31 says to "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more." It doesn't say to make them perish or end their anguish.
Further, is it our place to take the life of another, and usurp God's intentions for that person? Maybe God could have used that person's suffering to lead others to Christ. Maybe God would have healed the person miraculously. If we kill the person, we usurp that authority.
I don't buy into the arguments that euthanasia is acceptable because of available ICU beds, etc. (theologically, these arguments rely on the killing being justified by the saving of another person's life). Instead of killing the person, why could we not create more ICU units and train more medical professionals? In this context, the motivation for killing becomes economics -- by killing the person, society does not need to pay the cost of being able to help everyone.
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Beyond religious reasons, however, there are some more general ethical/practical issues with euthanasia. (Given that the beginning of my post was devoted to mentioning how we shouldn't force our beliefs on others, I feel that it is important to bring these up as well.)
First, you have the fundamental issue of who should be allowed to request euthanasia. Even if we say that only people with incurable and painful conditions can request it now, history has a precendent of small compromises leading to larger ones. If incurable/painful conditions qualify, why not let someone with terminal cancer end their life so as not to be a burden on their family? What happens if families or governments start pressuring people with these conditions to accept euthanasia?
Here is one quote that addresses this issue (given to the Canadian Senate Committee on Assisted Suicide, I don't know exactly who said it):
I have seen . . . AIDS patients who have been totally abandoned by their parents, brothers and sisters and by their lovers.
In a state of total isolation, cut off from every source of life and affection, they would see death as the only liberation open to them.
In those circumstances, subtle pressure could bring people to request immediate, rapid, painless death, when what they want is close and powerful support and love.
Second, what if the diagnosis is wrong, or if another treatment may have been found that could cure the condition or make it non-painful? What if the person doesn't fully understand the condition or what could happen in the future? What if the patient isn't aware of all possible treatments? What if the pain is only temporary, but the person doesn't realize that?
Third, by accepting euthanasia as a "treatment" for incurable diseases, we lessen the urgency of the search for cures for those diseases.
Personally, I don't think that there is any place for euthanasia in society. However, even if I did accept it in the limited circumstance of incurable and painful death, I sincerely doubt that it is possible or practical for us to create a regulatory system that could properly handle "justified" euthanasia that will not be abused or expanded beyond that limit. If we are going to propose a system that involves the taking of life, there is no room for error, and this is where euthanasia fails.