The trouble with this slippery slope is that once we grant a government the liberty to ‘put down’ people for situations we agree with, there may come a time when they start putting down people for situations we don’t agree with, such as being a conservative..
The way to handle this is to let the guy rot in prison. His dejection will be a warning to those who get out to behave themselves.
I am all for capital punishment but if he were sentenced to life in prison, I think it would be a mistake to empower the government to offer him death as an option, not because he doesn’t deserve death, but because governments need to be limited.
I totally agree
There is a larger issue here than what you describe (even though you make a good point). I’ll probably get flamed for this from everyone but oh well.
The fact that this is a hardened criminal makes no difference as far as the immorality of euthanasia is concerned. The fact is no one has the “right” to take their own life to end any kind of suffering. Be it disease, or punishment or whatever.
I find this case sad, really, that this person (rightfully) acknowledges he’s a danger to society, and is willing to take responsibility for the danger he creates by his sin, yet doesn’t wish to live with the consequences of this realization. He isn’t a threat to society anymore. There is no issue of self defense.
He is being called by God to not only be sorry for his sin but to truly repent in every sense of the word. One can’t “repent” by just being sorry for sin. Repent is also to turn your life around as much as possible. To live your life with the cross you now carry. This is life. This is what we are all called to do really.
What’s next, we encourage people who are alcoholics to kill themselves? Or drug addicts? Or any thief? When, or really who gets to decide when a life is “worthless”?
Here’s the answer to my own question: no one does but God. He creates life every PICOsecond. So it is HIS right, and none other’s to decide who lives and who dies.
If He wanted someone to die they would die already. So He still wants even this poor wretch of a man to live, for His Glory to be an example of His Glory on earth. If only he would accept His love as he has already accepted his sin, His Glory would be made manifest 100 fold. For NOTHING is impossible with God.
I find it disgusting that some would encourage him to kill himself “because his life is worthless”. That is precisely the same thing as saying “God, you’re stupid for keeping him alive. I know better than you God, he should die. He has no further worth on Earth, you God are stupid for thinking otherwise.”
EXACTLY the same thing. Such hubris. Such evil that would say that to God!