If it’s good enough for Tigger…

Published: September 6, 2007, 8:17 am

Tags: life issues, christian living theology, assisted suicide, euthanasia, humane, mercy killing, non voluntary, pain, suffering, terminal, why put animals down but not humans

It seems that many people argue that euthanasia should be legalized on the grounds that “we do it for our pets, so why shouldn’t we do it for suffering family members?” I am actually shocked to see this kind of reasoning used in public fora. Can we really compare the value of a human being with that of an animal? Are we prepared to say that putting grandma down is no different than putting down the family cat? Come to think of it, though, why is it that we put animals down? The most common answer I have heard is that we do it to prevent them from suffering. Is this really why we put them down, though? In fact, I think that most of the time when we put animals down it’s because it’s too expensive to keep them alive through operations or constant medication. I took my hamster to the vet and was told I could pay $1k for an operation or $30 to put it to sleep. Which do you think I chose? When people can afford it, they opt for operations and medicine to keep

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