Euthanasia and assisted suicide illegal under Noahide:Book Review, The Rainbow Covenant

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The featured image to this post comes from The Rainbow Covenant by Michael Dallen. As usual, Dallen dehumanizes anyone who disagrees with him, like pagans and Christians. Here the doctor is unplugging a patient from life support, and of course he is supposed to look like a fiendish quack. Assisted suicide is illegal under Noahide, that is the point he is trying to make.

 

"Mercy-Killing," Euthanasia,

and Physician-Assisted Suicide

All the above are just pretty names for murder. It isn't for human beings to assess the comparative current value of any human life. Even the life of a suffering person has infinite value to God. Human beings are not like the lesser animals, to be "put down" wheneverlife becomes unhappy or inconvenient.

A dying person is considered, for all intents and purposes, to be alive. Therefore, no positive, material action may be taken to hasten his death. One may pray for his speedy end. One may

remove an impediment to death, such as an annoying noise, or other irritant, which might be artificially prolonging his demise. But one may not touch him, directly or indirectly, as by removing

or rearranging a pillow or bedclothes, solely in order to hasten death.

Every human life, including the life of one who is terminally ill, is sacred. God created man not just for pursuit of animal pleasure and avoidance of animal discomfort, but to serve Him. We serve Him by living life to the very last moment until He takes it. Our lives are not whole otherwise; no one has a right to diminish a human life by encroaching on His Divine prerogatives.

Human beings may take animal life, in the exercise of human dominion, but our dominion doesn't extend to our fellow men — only God may take a human life. And our deaths, Israel is told, have unfathomable value. To die in His time and at His command brings man blessing — i.e., atonement. Yet one need not be conscious in order to die, and our Maker certainly doesn't prevent us from administering drugs, or other appropriate therapies, to relieve pain and suffering.

We don't serve Him with our pain but with our lives. Nothing may be done to shorten them. (Dallen, 2003, pp. 191-192)

SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.