BY JOCELYN SORIANO

Who can live without hope? We need it each day to give us the strength to go on. We hold on to it during our most painful struggles. It is hope alone that carries us through when even faith seems to grow dim.

What happens then when we lose all hope?

In our modern secular world, perhaps euthanasia can make us see the outcome.

Where despair once seemed like a vague shadow, euthanasia steps in and concretizes it. Where it seemed to be but a faint whisper, euthanasia gives it a firm voice. Speaking loud and clear, euthanasia declares the death of hope.

Is it the end?

It’s quite ironic how euthanasia appears to be a beacon of hope for those suffering.

In places where assisted euthanasia is legal, people can even wait in line, hoping to be the next one to finally secure approval.

For such people, euthanasia is their only “hope” to end their unbearable suffering. It is found to be the only alternative they could hope for if they do not wish to see themselves in a future filled with pain.

Euthanasia puts an end to it all. The pain, the suffering, the countless days and nights of agony. It puts an end to those persisting questions that keep on repeating at the back of one’s mind:

“When will it all end?”

“Will there ever be a solution?”

“Is this life still worth living?”

“Is there such a thing as a miracle?”

Yes, euthanasia puts an end to everything

It puts an end to any hope of healing or recovery. It puts an end to people’s longing to ever see and talk to their loved ones again.

Any person who has ever experienced the grief of losing a loved one will tell you that there is no beauty in death. Some pain may end, but the wound of separation will linger on. The emptiness and the loss will replace everything that you once had with the person you loved.

Let us not glorify euthanasia because it is simply a thief. By advocating death, it puts an end to life.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/beloved/2024/02/this-is-what-euthanasia-does-to-hope/