This essay has chosen to study the attitude of the largest Christian denomination towards euthanasia, in order to determine the basic Christian position in the current debate on euthanasia. It is interesting to note that, even within a Christian Church like this, numerous considerations are made on the question of euthanasia. The rights and values of the human person occupy an important place among the issues debated throughout the world today. In this regard, the largest Christian denomination, the Catholic Church, has solemnly reaffirmed the high dignity of the human person, and in particular his right to life. The Second Vatican Council therefore condemned crimes against life "as well as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, voluntary suicide" (Pastoral) The progress of medical science in recent years has highlighted new aspects of the issue of euthanasia , and these aspects, according to the Church, require further clarification on an ethical level. In modern society, in which even the fundamental values of human life are often questioned, cultural change has an influence on the way we look at suffering and death; furthermore, medicine has increased its ability to cure and prolong life in particular circumstances, which sometimes give rise to moral problems. Therefore, people living in this situation experience quite a bit of anxiety about the meaning of advanced old age and death. They also begin to ask themselves whether they have the right to obtain for themselves and their peers an "easy death", which would shorten the suffering and which seems to them more in keeping with human dignity. The considerations set out here concern first of all all those who place their faith and hope in Christ, who, with his life, death and resurrection, has given a new meaning to the existence and above all to the death of the Christian, as Saint Paul: "If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord" (Rom 14.8; cf. Phil 1.20). As for those who profess other religions, many will agree with us in believing that faith in God Creator, Provider and Lord of life - if they share this belief - gives every human person a high dignity and guarantees their respect. Human life is the foundation of all goods, and is the source and necessary condition of every activity human and every society.
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