Ethics: euthanasia
Recently, there have been several attempts to change state laws regarding voluntary assisted suicide. If passed, this form of euthanasia (literally ‘good death’) would allow doctors to assist a person to end his or her life. There are good reasons apart from Scripture to oppose euthanasia: a diagnosis can be incorrect or inaccurate and a prognosis is difficult to determine. Recently, Dr. Kenneth Stevens, a professor emeritus and a former chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the ÂOregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, recalled meeting a patient in 2000 who had been diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer.…
Netherlands, euthanasia and the very slippery slope
In 2002 the Netherlands legalised euthanasia, making it the first country to declare it legal for doctors to assist in suicides.[note]http://www.dailywire.com/news/19315/grim-now-thats-its-legal-euthanasia-netherlands-hank-berrien[/note] A 25-year review published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that death by assisted suicide rose from 1.7% in 1990 before it was legal, to 4.5% in 2015.[note]https://stream.org/euthanasia-used-4-5-percent-deaths-netherlands/[/note] In July LifeSiteNews reported that euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting so out of hand that 200 Dutch doctors took out an advertisement in a major newspaper which stated: “[Assisted suicide] for someone who cannot confirm he wants to die? No, we will not do that. Our moral reluctance…
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