Catholic Views On Euthanasia

After considering all the different perspectives manifested throughout this paper, I, as a Catholic, believe that the use of euthanasia, active euthanasia in particular, is highly unethical. Our life journey teaches us about what it means to be human with all the roadblocks and challenges we experience that pushes us towards doing what is good as we face greater affliction we may encounter in the future. As part of our humanity, we must respect God, as the author of our being, who takes the wheel of our life, the bringer of light amidst the darkness that encapsulates us in this world. We make the day-to-day decisions but God has control of our fate from the very beginning of our finitude as mere mortals. I strongly oppose the use of euthanasia

The Lord will not pave a smooth way for us but we must not abandon our hardships and others who suffer like us either with the use of euthanasia on oneself. Like Jeremiah and Paul, we are all bound to stumble across adversities in life and the very act of euthanasia, rejects the grace of God within us who helps us bear the sufferings brought by our own sins. Euthanasia contradicts the natural instinct of what it means to be human who strives to survive and our contribution to society as individuals, wherein when we practice euthanasia, we violate our responsibility towards

We first need to seek medical treatment as a cure to our suffering but only until a certain extent. As mentioned by the late Pope John Paul II and part of the belief of Buddhism, excessive medical treatment for incurable terminal cases with no further possibility of improvement is considered to be unethical since its shows rather, a point of desperation to escape the inevitable chariots of death. The extremity of enduring all possible medical assistance in order to sustain life may not be justifiable and may be of equivalence to euthanasia. This is why practice of passive euthanasia is momentously gaining recognition as an option for individuals who are terminally ill and suffering great pain may opt to resist treatment and go through a natural form of death, especially if no medical solution can possibly to appease their affliction and ensure better results with their life struggle. Withdrawal from medical means and merely depending on the intravenous route and painkillers are an option accepted by the Church for those with incurable terminal