By Elimu Assistant Team 
EUTHANASIA DEFINITION
Request for premature ending of life applied to situations where a patient is suffering severely or is enduring a terminal illness. Euthanasia can more helpfully be defined as ‘the intentional killing by act or omission of a person whose life is felt to be not worth living’.
Reasons why Christians are opposed to euthanasia
- God is the only one who gives life and thus should be the one to take it away.
- Euthanasia equals murder which is biblically condemned/Thou shall not kill.
- It destroys God’s image in human beings:
- Human judgment is limited and therefore cannot make the correct decisions on terminating the life of others:
- Medical ethics only allows a doctor to sustain life and not to take it away:
- It is against Jesus’ mission on earth to heal the sick:
- Suffering is part of a Christian’s life from the teachings of Jesus and therefore it cannot be used to justify euthanasia:
- The works of mercy involve saving life/not destroying it:
- It is a constitutional right to uphold human life.
