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how do christians respond to the question of euthanasia
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How do Christians respond to the question of euthanasia? Different Christian denominations respond to euthanasia in different ways, although they are all against it. The Roman Catholic Church would argue that if a treatment is available to lengthen the life of a patient, then they should accept it. The Hospice Movement encourages people to stay alive for as long as God chooses, rather than to make the choice themselves. The Church of England encourages its members to actively oppose any proposed changes to the UK bill on assisted dying, which it says will, 'make it easier for terminally ill people to kill themselves and make it legal for doctors to prescribe fatal drugs to people who have asked to die'. It also sees any attempt to introduces laws allowing people to do this, as a 'slippery-slope' towards the introduction of full legalised euthanasia in the UK. Quakers would make a distinction between allowing...
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