Maxim Revision

Euthanasia: The Quality of Life

This earthly life is temporal; that is, it is measured by time, time that is relative. See maxims on time.

To secure a fine perspective of relative time, in this case, is to measure a life span of seventy years in days. There are 25,567 days to a life span of 70 years. Now let us compare this to the number of days since Christ's birth 2004 years ago. Surprisingly for many of us it is not a million days since Christ was born, but only 732,038. This leaves us with 267,962 days or approx. 733 years to go before 1,000,000 days will have elapsed.

If we divide 267,962 days by a life span of 25,567 days we find that approx. 10 consecutive life times will have come and gone over that period. Expressed another way, the world's total human population will have changed about ten times. Compare these figures to the period of the Dinosaurs who are reputed to have roamed the earth for tens of millions of years. Two specific conclusions can be drawn from these figures: firstly, Christ's life on earth was relatively recent and secondly our lives and the tests we experience in life are comparatively fleeting and momentary.

The differential between the span of a human life and the period of the Dinosaurs is as nothing compared to the difference between a life of a hundred years and a life that is eternal. Similarly to live for a moment as compared to living for a hundred years is not fateful. What is momentous is to have lived at all for from the moment of physical conception we are united with our soul, our spiritual self. A self which can respond decisively to God's love with the joy of having being created.

Life is sweet, especially when we feel fine and things are going well for us. Inevitably the tests will come and our integrity will be challenged. How we respond to these tests will over time influence in many ways our quality of life. This phrase, 'quality of life', has been used to promote and justify euthanasia. To do so is to be in denial of the obvious fact that life is a test, a test to determine the quality, not of this temporary fleeting life but the quality of our eternal life of bliss with God or the degradation of eternal regret with Satan.

"Life is a test, not a gamble."

"A test can bring forth a testimony and the more demanding the test the more fulfilling is the testimony."

"I am the Lord of supply and the truth, the law of My supply is this: I did not give you life for you to take the life of someone else."

"Temporalism is that which is so easy to accept for obvious reasons. Eternalism, being not so intrusive, is not so easily accepted."

"To take life is to deny the opportunity for true and full repentance."

"To make sense of your life is to be in the world but not of the world."

"Eternal life is the infinite perspective of being."

"To take a risk with that which is temporary is one thing but to take a chance with that which is eternal is to risk all, eternally."

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