Euthanasia: when someone is helped to die without pain before they would have died naturally (a.k.a 'mercy killing' = 'good or gentle death')
- Voluntary, where the person asks someone else to help them. Or involuntary, where someone else decides that the person's life should end (e.g. if they're in a coma that they won't come out of)
- Passive Euthanasia: where the patient requests that treatment should be stopped. Euthanasia is illegal in the UK but legal elsewhere
--Most Christians believe that only God gives life and only God can decide when a life should be ended. They believe that euthanasia or suicide is a sin; 'The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away' (Job 1:21), 'I kill and I make alive' (Deuteronomy 32:39). Also, most Christians do not differentiate between the different types of Euthanasia as it is still killing
--Some Christians such as Dame Cicely Saunders who created Hospices (where terminally ill patients go to be looked after before they die) believe in Palliative Care (where terminally ill patients keep pain under control)
Suicide: when someone ends their own life (a.k.a 'self-murder')
Roman Catholics believe it's a sin. Most Christians today are more compassionate e.g. the Samaritans was set up by a Christians vicar for those who are depressed
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