| Title: | Discussions from a Christian Perspective |
| Notice: | Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome! |
| Moderator: | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE |
| Created: | Mon Sep 17 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1362 |
| Total number of notes: | 61362 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1315.1 | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Thu Jan 09 1997 03:24 | 16 | |
| 1315.2 | undecided | THOLIN::TBAKER | Flawed To Perfection | Thu Jan 09 1997 13:24 | 21 |
| 1315.3 | PHXSS1::HEISER | R.I.O.T. | Thu Jan 09 1997 13:46 | 1 | |
| 1315.4 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Thu Jan 09 1997 15:14 | 2 | |
| 1315.5 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Thu Jan 09 1997 15:28 | 5 | |
| 1315.6 | Here's the other topic, Dave | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Thu Jan 09 1997 15:30 | 19 |
| 1315.7 | PHXSS1::HEISER | R.I.O.T. | Thu Jan 09 1997 15:43 | 3 | |
| 1315.8 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Thu Jan 09 1997 15:59 | 6 | |
| 1315.9 | PHXSS1::HEISER | R.I.O.T. | Thu Jan 09 1997 16:33 | 1 | |
| 1315.10 | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | Thu Jan 09 1997 16:37 | 20 | ||
| 1315.11 | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | Ebonics Is Not Apply | Thu Jan 09 1997 20:08 | 7 | |
| 1315.12 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Thu Jan 09 1997 20:58 | 6 | |
| 1315.13 | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Fri Jan 10 1997 14:15 | 12 | |
| 1315.14 | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | Ebonics Is Not Apply | Fri Jan 10 1997 14:26 | 8 | |
| 1315.15 | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Fri Jan 10 1997 14:29 | 8 | |
| 1315.16 | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | Ebonics Is Not Apply | Fri Jan 10 1997 15:01 | 4 | |
| 1315.17 | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Fri Jan 10 1997 15:25 | 5 | |
| 1315.18 | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | Ebonics Is Not Apply | Fri Jan 10 1997 15:30 | 3 | |
| 1315.19 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | You're so good-looking! | Fri Jan 10 1997 15:43 | 11 | |
| 1315.20 | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | Mon Jan 13 1997 12:10 | 4 | ||
| 1315.21 | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | Ebonics Is Not Apply | Mon Jan 13 1997 12:53 | 7 | |
| 1315.22 | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | Tue Jan 14 1997 13:58 | 6 | ||
| 1315.23 | re: .22 | THOLIN::TBAKER | Flawed To Perfection | Tue Jan 14 1997 16:08 | 1 |
| 1315.24 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Mirthful Mystic | Tue Jan 14 1997 16:48 | 7 | |
| 1315.25 | Let's think a little | NWD002::RANDALL_DO | Thu Feb 06 1997 22:13 | 26 | |
Let's get some distinctions made.
There's a difference - moral and legal - between refusing heroic
medical treatment and actively killing yourself. Refusing treatment
has been recognized as an option, and in a sense it's letting God take
you in his time.
Taking action to kill is just that. It's assuming authority over life
and death. That's God's authority, not ours.
To die for the sake of another is another case. It's hard to see how
physician-assisted suicide (or,suicide) is similar. Suicide is a
selfish act, done against oneself. Giving your life for another is an
unselfish act. In no way are they similar.
The other question that needs to be addressed, is the quality of life
issue. Who are we to judge the quality of life - ours or anothers'?
We have failed, and will continue to fail, to accurately judge the
quality of life that a given person has or will have, throughout
history. Briefly put, it's not our place to make that judgement.
There is no human system or society that is qualified to make that
judgement, and to keep from expanding the definition.
Physician-assisted suicide slips to mercy killing, which slips to
"ethnic cleansing" which slips to genocide. Humans cannot judge other
humans' fitness to live. Only God can.
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| 1315.26 | THOLIN::TBAKER | Flawed To Perfection | Fri Feb 07 1997 11:33 | 23 | |
> Physician-assisted suicide slips to mercy killing,
Does not necessarily go to...
> which slips to
> "ethnic cleansing" which slips to genocide.
> Humans cannot judge other
> humans' fitness to live. Only God can.
But suicide, by definition, is not someone judging another.
In this case, it is a situation where a doctor decides
whether or not a person deserves to be allowed to take
their own life.
Yet, Jesus did not refuse the cup. He could have taken an
easier way out. We all must decide whether or not to take
the cup. In the case of terminal suffering, does it help
a person to have the cup forced on them?
Tom
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