Why do you think euthanasia is morally wrong?

Answer 1

It is morally wrong because God should pick when you die and also since your killing your self you are breaking a sin basically you are committing murder.

That is why it is morally wrong.

Answer 2

Mistakes - people may opt for euthanasia because they believe they have a terminal illness, but after death this could be found to have been a misdiagnosis.

Euthanasia goes against the Hippocratic oath which is taken by doctors - says that they will prolong life. This stems from Greek Philosopher Hippocrates (460-370 BCE) - 'I will not prescribe a deadly drug to please someone, nor give advice that may cause his death'.

The 'slippery slope' argument -- that the legalisation of active euthanasia would lead to the legalisation of compulsory euthanasia, or types of euthanasia which would possibly conclude with the sorts of involuntary euthanasia used by the Nazis on the sick, the disabled, and the elderly, and the experiments that were done on them. Legalising active euthanasia could lead to horrific acts being morally accepted. Proposed by John Glover although Helga Kushe says this hasn't happened in the Netherlands where euthanasia is legal.

Manipulation - euthanasia would allow elderly relatives to be coerced into opting for Euthanasia because they feel like they are a burden on their family, or because they have relatives that wish to benefit from inheritance after the death - they want the person's death to be sooner as this would benefit them. This idea was proposed by Glover in 1977 as he felt that the elderly and lonely would be taken advantage of. He also thought that euthanasia would devalue life and could create a second class of people made up of the sick and the disabled.

Religions, such as Christianity, would argue that Euthanasia is 'playing God' as only God can give life, and therefore only He should be able to take life. Those who see euthanasia as murder would also argue that in the Ten Commandments we are told 'thou shalt not murder' and therefore euthanasia goes against God.