Euthanasua and religious attitudes

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Active euthanasia- when the dying person is killed to put them out of their suffering, what happens ends their life and their illness does not kill them

Passive euthanasia- is when the dying person is allowed to die through taking away them medical support they need to keep them alive after the illness is allowed to kill them

Christianity

life is sacred

protect life as much as possible

no wish to hasten death

hospices are seen as a compassionate way to help the dying

want god and only god to take their life

god created life in his own image

you shall not kill(10 commandments)

I, your God, give life, and i take it away(old testament)

is a teaching of the church that life is respected from conception until natural death

doctors can't disobey the obligation to prolong life by all means

most do not agree with it

seen as murder

church of England accepts passive euthanasia

dosen't agree with active euthanasia

Islam

self harm or self killing is wrong

it is the decision of Allah when someone dies

neither kill nor destroy yourself (Qur'an)

whoever kills a man; it shall be as if he killed all mankind(Qur'an)

do not take life which Allah has made sacred except for a just cause(Qur'an)

Euthanasia is Zulm - a wrong doing against Allah(Shari'ah law)

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