Several Days Ago The Blog Posted A Link To Christian Arguments Against Euthanasia, Now ...

Some Christians would support euthanasia. They might argue:

• God is love. Christianity is love and compassion. Keeping someone in pain and suffering is not loving, it is evil. Euthanasia can be the most loving action, and the best way of putting agape love into practice.
• Humans were given dominion over all living things by God (Genesis 1:28), i.e. we can choose for ourselves.
• Jesus came so that people could have life “in all its fullness” John 10:10: this means quality of life. If someone has no quality of life, then euthanasia could be good.
• God gave humans free will. We should be allowed to use free will to decide when our lives end.
• “ Do to others as you would have them do to you”. How would you want to be treated?
• There are examples of euthanasia in the Bible - in 2 Samuel 1:9-10 “Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die.’ So I killed him.”
• Thomas More, a Roman Catholic saint, wrote a book about a perfect society ('Utopia'), which included euthanasia - people "choose to die since they cannot live but in great misery." RS Revision Course.