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Christian Worldview: Ethical Dilemmas

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People are required to make ethical decisions every day. These decisions can greatly impact their future. What is important to some people may have little or no value to others. A person with a Christian worldview would base their ethical dilemma decision on their beliefs and the instructions that God’s word provides. This paper will explain how Joni, who is living her life as a quadriplegic desires to terminate her life due to her condition and severe depression, but if she came to know the love, faith, and grace of Jesus Christ and placed her hope and values of life as seen in the Christian worldview, she will hopefully choose to not break one of the ten commandments and continue living her life in her weakened state to glorify God. …show more content…

Living her life as a quadriplegic has left her severely depressed, she feels as though her condition is a burden on her family, and as though her life is worthless. These feelings are affecting her quality of life and therefore she is considering legally terminating her life and wishes to be euthanized. The ethical dilemma is if she should be granted permission to legally terminate her life, or should she not be allowed to terminate her own life and continue living her life in her current condition. She could end her own life and leave behind a family that cares for her, or she could get counseling and medication to get her through her depression that may help her feel as if her life is still worth living. A secular worldview may perceive a person’s life being about the pursuit of happiness, where the Christian worldview sees life’s purpose as praising God and bringing honor and glory to …show more content…

They may only see it from the patient’s perspective and believe that she should do what is right for her if her quality of life has diminished and she now lives a life with little independence (Alters, 2008). She could decide on passive euthanasia, which is forgoing medical treatment that allows her body to naturally die, or she could utilize a physician to administer, or provide her with a lethal amount of drugs that will enable her to commit suicide (Alters, 2008). Either of these decisions for Joni would require assistance, the willingness of another person to help her end her life since she is unable to use her arms or hands due to her paralysis. Therefore, both of these people place their beliefs in the right-to-die, and then they view the body as destroyed by a disease that they perceive as no longer worth living (Humphrey, 2000). Other worldviews do not promise hope or an afterlife. The Christian worldview promises hope in Christ and an eternal dwelling place with God, without suffering and

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