I don't want to write a thesis style blog like I usually do but this is my blog airing my opinion and I feel very strongly on this one.A 13 year old girl wants to die in dignity and has turned down the right to have a transplant that temporarily prolongs her life.
OK I can see the argument, if she doesn't have it she's dying naturally anyway and it's not induced euthanasia by going to another country and dying peacefully by injection or pills, which as far as I concerned is suicide. They try and take the edge off it by calling it euthanasia.
Now not in this girls instance, as she's doing nothing to aid in her death, in fact after reading her story she's just had enough, but I wanted to comment on the many cases I am hearing of terminally ill people fighting in court to be allowed to kill themselves to end their suffering.
I've never been there although I have watched my godson die in his mother's arms and seen my friends daughter hours from death at 6 weeks old before undergoing heart surgery. Death is no joke and in my opinion neither is God.
God forbid I ever have to endure pain and suffering to get to the point where I just want to end it, but you're just going to have to dose me up with morphine as much as you can because as far as I'm concerned I'm not going anywhere until I am called. If I aid in my passing, as far as I'm concerned to me that's suicide and the last time I checked that doesn't get you a pass from God. I fear him more than that potential pain and it's funny I read one of the daily bible verses sent to me on my Blackberry this morning after I read the story about Hannah Jones and it was from John 14:2-3 "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
Broken down….
Mansions refers to dwelling places. Everybody has a longing for a permanent, secure place. Such places have already been set aside for all of God's children. Jesus has gone ahead to prepare our place. Peter never got over the wonder of his unfading, reserved, heavenly home (1 Pet. 1:3, 4). The Lord is telling them that though they are disturbed now, they will have rest and refreshment later.
With the whole religion debate, the "is there isn't there a heaven or a hell, a God or a Devil?" I look at it this way for myself. I am not perfect, my blog that shows part of me is there for the online world to see, I curse from time to time, may have impure thoughts about Obama, and want to slap a fool occasionally from getting on my damn nerves, but who is perfect? If there is a heaven [which I believe] then how is it hurting Christian/Catholic/Muslims [fill in the blank] people from practising a religion peacefully and being good and honest people? If there isn't a heaven well you lived your life a good person [hopefully] and if there is then you've got a great shot at getting in to the big house over than perishing in the fiery pits of hell. You have more to lose not having faith in my opinion than having faith, as you'll be blessed in this life and the next.
To sum it up: euthanasia/suicide I don't agree with it. Never have agreed with the whole 'playing God' role. I believe in too much to know there are consequences on the other side. Births, deaths and unions before God are already written. A lot of the rest is the gift of free will. I'm not interfering with the death side of things. All I know is I need to be prepared. And for me that's enough.
Everybody else can do and think as they please.
Amen
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