Euthanasia or Life

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Many of you know how to complete the verse from the Bible where I selected my title: “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21.  Another similar verse is: “It is appointed (by God) once to die and after that, the judgment.” Hebrews 9:27

I cite those verses because it is the Lord who decides who dies and when they die.  It is not for anyone or any society to usurp that responsibility from the Giver of all life.  With that in mind, it horribly troubles me and should trouble you, that the coming holocaust will be that directed at our most honored humans – the seniors and others will severe disabilities.

The value of life has been diminished ever since Roe vs. Wade and today the devaluation of human life is rapidly accelerating.  In my previous article I brought this subject to light and feel I need to expound upon what was said earlier.

When the word “euthanasia” is used we first think of allowing a premature death of seniors.  To be accurate the definition is to “allow anyone to make the decision to take their life usually with assistance from a medical professional.”  For instance, did you know that euthanasia is a growing trend in Europe?  Should children have the right to ask for their own death?

The Associated Press, 10-31-13 reported: “In Belgium, where euthanasia is now legal for people over the age of 18, the government is considering extending it to children — something that no other country has done.  The same bill would offer the right to die to adults with early dementia.  Advocates argue that euthanasia for children, with the consent of their parents, is necessary to give families an option in a desperately painful situation.  But opponents have questioned whether children can reasonably decide to end their own lives.  ‘It is strange that minors are considered legally incompetent in key areas, such as getting married, but might (be able) to decide to die,’ Catholic Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard testified.”

These dreadful decisions made by courts throughout the so-called “civilized” world remind me of the decisions Adolph Hitler made when he was so determined to “cleanse the Germanic race.”  Today we make similar decisions by unanimous consent when it seems oh so right.  Will God have to apologize to Hitler if He does not stop this madness in our generation as He stopped Hitler some 70 years ago?

Throughout human history euthanasia has been allowed, outlawed, allowed again and forever debated.  In the United States we have previously chosen the Judeo-Christian view and have forbidden the premature taking of life simply because one wanted to die and needed assistance.

Ian Dowbiggin, PhD. Writes:  “Enlightenment toleration of suicide proved to be temporary.  Under the leadership of evangelicals…a vigorous religious counterattack gained momentum as the late eighteenth century drew to a close.  The various waves of religious revivalism, starting with the Great Awakening of the mid-1700s, prevented secularists and agnostics on either side of the Atlantic Ocean from generating popular support for taking one’s life.  These events dovetailed with the Second Great Awakening of intense evangelical fervor in the first years of the nineteenth century and strengthened the condemnation of suicide and euthanasia that stretched back to the earliest days of colonial America.

The rejection of suicide and euthanasia remained firm, even after many of the new states decriminalized suicide in the wake of the Revolutionary War.  The majority of Americans rejected suicide’s common-law punishment…but no matter how sympathetic they were toward the suicide’s family, most Americans stopped far short of condoning self-murder.  As late as the antebellum period there existed in the United States a firm consensus…against suicide and mercy killing.”

Unfortunately the trend is heading in the other direction; allowing the killing of certain people under certain circumstances.  Friend’s I’m not referring to pulling the plug when our loved one has no possibility to live except as a vegetable.  I’m talking about our sliding society deciding on who lives and who doesn’t and under what circumstances they may die!

Mark my word and my warning:  Within the next 10 years laws will be enacted that will encourage allowing our seniors, severely disabled, mentally handicapped and others with deformities to die sooner than later.  This will be a growing trend because of the lack of funds to keep them living and the education our youth receives that teaches the devaluation of human life.  The young adults will begin to resent the fact that they have to pay billions of dollars through their high premiums and other taxes in order to treat others who will die in the near future anyway.

How far have we fallen?  How much more insidious depravity must we endure?  When will the Giver of life intervene and settle this degeneracy once and for all?

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