If someone refuses treatment for cancer, would it be considered the sin of suicide in God's eyes?
A friend recently died because he refused a treatment with a 90% remission rate.
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No.
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No. The treatment is often worse than the cancer. Nothing wrong with wanting to die quietly with family.
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No because God created cancer.
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no cuz cancer treatment is often painful and the effectiveness can be very poor depending on the stage of the tumor
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No. Cancer is a very evil thing but a natural thing. It something he gave to the person for a reason... Some people are afraid of treatment because treatment itself can kill you. Everyone dies with or without cancer.. Some die without even knowing they had cancer...
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In most cases, no. To be suicide, achieving one's death has to be the principle motive. If one merely accepts the reality of one's natural death, even though one would prefer to remain alive and healthy, that is certainly not suicide.
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no it is not a sin or commiting suicide
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no, because a person could refuse treatment and go into remission, so it can't be seen as a deliberate attempt to end ones life
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God knows the heart. Christians do not get punished for sin by God, Jesus already died for all their sins.
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No. Suicide is actively killing yourself. Refusing treatment is allowing natural processes to kill you. They are totally different in the eyes of the law and in most religions.
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Even doctors are not very sure of their works on cancer so, my answer is no unless the treatment is 100% sure with guarantee.
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"Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you."
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Can't really speak for HaShem but assuming that the person is at the end of their life, no. Prolonging death is also a bad thing. However, If the person had a chance of at least some amount of recovery and refused knowing doing nothing would kill them then yes it is a passive suicide.
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In God's eyes, our imperfections are blatant. If we had to measure against perfection, we would soon realize how quickly we fall from that mark. In a ruthless examination of conscience, we can only hope that the cleansing of our souls, no matter what sort of obstacles we face in our lives, is guided by that same higher power. We rely upon God's Mercy....something that we can easily find within the integral workings of our being.
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Its not suicide but, after having gone through what I have, to not chose to extend your life for fear that the quality will be diminished is misguided. I respect his right to informed consent but I cannot fathom not wanting to extend ones stay on this planet. I know suicides and they have all been secretive about their state and they where all successful on their first attempts. To die from cancer is not suicide, it is the ultimate act of denial. How could one live through the advance of the illness without having second thoughts about treatment? I understand mistrust of the medical system but the treatments available today are far less invasive and the way it is delivered is far more sensitive to the plight of the patient than even five years ago.. What is so frightening that would make death preferable to treatment?
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No. Some realize that the trade offs aren't acceptable to them. There are worse things than death.
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Jesus supposedly refused to defend himself during his trial. If he did, that would have gone against God's plan. So I guess going against God's plan, whatever that is, is considered a sin. I wonder if finding a cure for cancer goes against God's plan, and hence a sin. There was a time when the church considered it sinful to administer pain medication to women during childbirth because it lessened the pain that God condemned Eve with during that original sin fiasco. Stuffin' nonsense if you ask me. Sorry about your friend..
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Well, probably but it would depend. Sometimes I have thought that if I found out I have like a stage-4 cancer, I would refuse treatment since my chances of survival would be really small anyways, and I wouldn't want to spend my last months of life being chemo's beyotch emotionally and physically. In the other hand, I would never advice someone else to do the same. I would do everything I can and even what I can't to convince them to have treatment to prolong their life time.
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From personal experience, death with dignity seems a better course that treatments which may or may not work and which are guaranteed to make you sick as a dog and destroy the quality of your life. From a purely religious standpoint, if God has ordained something to happen to you than nothing will be able to stop the same and if God has ordained for something not to happen to you nothing will be able to cause it. Finally, when your appointed time to die arrives, you are going and that is simply the way it is. ma'a salaam
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