Jewish View Of Euthanasisa

Question 1

What do they believe about active euthanasia?

Answer 1

Forbidden
Seem as murder
No exceptions

Question 2

What do they believe about shortening life?

Answer 2

Wrong
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“ the value of human life is infinite and beyond b measure, so that any part of life - even if only an hour or a second - is of precisely the same worth as 70 years”

Question 3

What do they believe about passive euthanasia?

Answer 3

Jewish law says doctors mist preserve life
If there is an impediment to the natural process of death and the patient only survives because of it, it is permitted to withdraw that thing

Question 4

Quotes

Answer 4

“For everything there is a season …”

“Why shouldest thou die before my time”

Question 5

What is the general Judaism view?

Answer 5

Preservation of human life is one of the supreme moral values
Jewish tradition forbids doing anything to shorten life
Jewish tradition does not require doctors to make dying last longer than it naturally would
There is a limit to the duty of keeping people alive
- if someone’s life is ending and they are in serious pain, doctors have no duty to make that person suffer more by artificially extending their dying moments