The Death of Your Morals and the loss of your soul

While Heidi was correct that I had part of the Hippocratic Oath wrong, the essence that a physician is not supposed to harm their patient is there. Heidi was mostly grasping at straws with her initial statement. As for the morality of Euthanasia, there is a country we can look toward is the Netherlands. Euthanasia has been legal there since 2002.

The acceptance of Euthanasia in the Netherlands had a negative effect on their development of palliative care. It took longer for the Netherlands than many other countries to implement and improve palliative care for patients. This was because there was no reason for a person to need palliative care if death was readily available to them. This caused people to trying to aggressively fight an illness when they had no chance to survive. A large problem with this lack of will to fight against terminal illness is that is a slippery slope to other things.

Around 650 babies per year are being murdered due to the Netherlands law of physicians assisted suicide. These are not always babies who will never make it to their first birthdays anyway. Some of these babies are deemed to be in too much pain or condemned to a life of suffering due to a disability that they were born with. Many of the Netherlands citizens are upset and fighting about whether or not the law that they have had in effect for so long is moral. It is just one step from killing disabled newborns to killing disabled children and then on to adolescents and adults. Becoming familiar with taking the easy way out in situations such as these is a dangerous precedent to set. The most terrifying thing about the situation in the Netherlands is that these babies have zero ability to consent so their parents and the doctors have complete control over their right to live. No human being should wield control over another human being’s right to live. Even former supporters of euthanasia in the Netherlands have switched sides because they realize that it is immoral even for their standards.

One thing that cannot be denied is that the lord will never forgive those who senselessly murder his children without remorse. In the bible, it is stated simply in Exodus 20:13. Killing is wrong and god will punish those who do not follow his law. Is a short while of ease in this life worth an eternity of suffering in hell? I do not think so and I feel that people like Heidi do not understand the consequences of their liberal and underdeveloped theories. A topic of death is not the right point for someone who is involved with today’s society’s lack of moral integrity to comment on. I believe it is things like this that will bring the terrible curse of the rapture on the world and at that point the Heidi’s of the world will see the consequences of their actions.

The acceptance of Euthanasia in society will be the beginning of the end.