In Canada, so-called Physician Assisted suicide is the 1# cause of death. According to the Daily Caller: https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/12/canada-euthanasia-disability-human-rights-mental-health/ .;
Let us be clear here, there is a difference between a Do Not Resuscitate order and an act of Euthanasia. We're not talking about needlessly prolonging someone's life artificially, we're talking about medical homicide with intent. The argument from the euthanasia camp comes from personal autonomy, but the autonomy argument is a weak one at best when one considers that suicide is a one person job. Add a second active agent into the equation and it is a homicide by definition.
So, let us attempt to break this down by chair and argument set:
Theology
Does the Bible hit the topic of euthanasia and if so, what does it say?
Ecclesiastes 7:17
1 Corinthians 15:26
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Job 12:10
Philosophy
Is there a point at which euthanasia is "OK"? Don't we "pull the plug" on loved ones in the hospital that we have been told will not regain consciousness?
What is the potential progression - and it certainly looks like Canada is the poster child for this - with implementing physician assisted suicide?
Sanctity of Life vs. Quality of Life: https://probe.org/euthanasia/
https://www.webtruth.org/cultural-issues/a-christian-perspective-on-euthanasia/
None of us would look forward to being mentally incapacitated, nor to be called upon to care for someone in that state for many years. Let us, however, recognize the value of all believers, and seek, with divine help, to show them God-like love and care. We must categorically reject any attempt to lessen the personhood of any individual “made in the likeness of God”.
Cultural
Why can't we accept euthanasia in our culture? What is the big deal?
Shouldn't a person have the right to make the decision for themselves regarding euthanasia? My body, my choice?
Well, like most bodily autonomy arguments pervade by the left, the inverse ultimately is the case: Someone else's body is inconvenient, therefore my choice, and by that they mean license to murder.
Here's a note from a nurse in Australia writing anonymously to protect her job. She details several events like this one to an editor at The Leading Edge Blog :
“There was the family that stood in the corridor of a very busy ward and argued about why the individual who held power of attorney was wasting everyone's time by requesting medical staff keep the patient alive, and that they instead needed to refuse treatment and let nature take its course otherwise, on discharge, the patient would have to go into care and that would eat into their inheritance.
What was this horrible disease that was stripping this individual of their dignity?
A chest infection, which was responding well to intravenous antibiotics.”
An article from the Examiner draws an interesting correlation between Euthanasia and “Granny Dumping” the practice of dumping moderately ill patients on socialized healthcare for convenience:
“Evidence indicates that abused older people are more likely to be female, cognitively impaired, in poor physical health, and dependent on other people. Elderly vulnerable women will be most at risk of coercion to accept euthanasia if it is legalised. If euthanasia is legalised in Tasmania, "granny dumping" will become a much more ominous term.” -The Examiner
Politically
Why is this topic so "touchy" for our political leaders?
What countries allow euthanasia and under what conditions?
Columbia, South America
Canada, North America
Australia
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Canada, Australia, and Colombia allow euthanasia for adults who are in unbearable suffering and who will die from their condition.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/where-is-euthanasia-legal
Economically
What are the economic implications in allowing euthanasia? Don't they all point to the positive side?
Again, with all such edits to God's morality, there is no final distinction to be made. We have already murdered 70 million babies in America alone to create a top heavy population with a less sizeable tax base to provide for the elderly. Let us not make the same type of error and murder the elderly. The next generation is watching what we do with policy and how we value life, those who push euthanasia now, may not like where it leads when you are the useless eater who must be disposed of at 60 years of age. This is not a slippery slope argument, but one being made from history and even the writings of some of the more extreme Euthanasia proponents.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/12/canada-euthanasia-disability-human-rights-mental-health/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/where-is-euthanasia-legal
https://www.hoover.org/research/culture-euthanasia
https://www.christian.org.uk/news/woman-pleads-for-euthanasia-changes-mind-on-death-bed/
https://www.thelocal.it/20150624/euthanasia-patient-changes-mind-at-last-minute/
https://www.noeuthanasia.org.au/i_once_supported_euthanasia_now_i_ve_changed_my_mind_nz_nurse_tells
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49660525