Euthanasia is Not Different from Murdering

by: Piasti Sopandani

The ill people whom the family can not control emotions because of the ill’s people pity look, choose to do euthanasia. Euthanasia comes from the Greek "eu" meaning good or well, and "thana" meaning death. It isn't a new issue, in 1516 Thomas More proposed a system called euthanasia in which patients dealing with incurable diseases were offered a choice of a good and easy death. It is very important to clarify the values of today. In recent times, euthanasia is frequently called "mercy killing." Nowadays, as high technology environments are developing, a "natural" death is almost impossible. Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill people’s pain and save them from the turtores of their illness. Euthanasia is just same as a murder, because it’s not appreciate human life, make ill persons hopeless, and sins.

First, euthanasia is not appreciate human life. Life is the greatest thing that given to us from the God. Although in worst situation, or in any pity look of anybody, we another humans are doesn’t have any belonging to end anybody’s life, because it’s all on God’s Hand. Besides, every people have the same right to life that have been ruled in regulation. Nobody can pay someone’s life, because life only given once and nothing can exchange it.

Second, euthanasia make the ill person’s hopeless. The ill people still have spirit for recover from the illness, it shown by they’re still alive untill they get euthanasia. Even the people know that they were not had a long lifespin anymore, they still consume the medicine given by the doctor. Although the family doesn’t know, i’m sure that every night, every hour, and every time the ill people always pray to the God hoping some miracle happen to recover him. Every people have to struggle for survive, and people around them should appreciate or better help them from their problem with the best way.

Last, about sins. Not only the family who choose to use euthanasia as the way to end the ill people from their pain will get sins, but also many people will get this effect. The medical team will also get this effect too, because they use their hands and ability to end someone’s life. The age of every people is on God’s hand. We don’t have entitled to determine when the people die.

As pity as anything somebody was, it doesn’t mean we should release them from their pain with end their life, but, we have to give them another better way for help. If we see from those three points of view we can infer that euthanasia isn’t the best way. Euthanasia is not different with murdering, because euthanasia doesn’t have any humanity life.