Is refusing medical treatment a sin?Do you think proceeding”against medical advice”constitutes suicide?
It would only be a sin if the treatment was refused by a mature enough person who did it in order to bring on death. That would constitute suicide, in effect. In Britain recently, there was a little girl who refused further drastic medical interventions (and with her parents’ support) because she’d had her short life filled with that and she couldn’t face any more suffering. She wanted her last months to have a good quality, free from the horrendous side effects of the treatment. It was not a sin to refuse; she had to choose between the Devil and the deep blue sea. She was going to die young anyway. Then there are situations where refusing medical advice is done because the patient feels the treatment would actually do them more harm than good, and that death will not result if they refuse. Time without number, Doctors have been proven wrong with their predictions of hastening death by refusing their recommendations. Even though I disagree vehemently with Jehovah’s Witnesses’ reasons f
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