Euthanasia

Answer

The short answer to your question is that, simply put, our bodies and lives are not our own to decide to do with them what we please. We have been entrusted with our bodies by G-d and have been put here to fulfill a purpose. We are therefore not given the right to determine that “our time is up” here and end our lives.

Rabbi Moshe Rosenstein

Thanks for that, so, if our lives are owned by G-d, then does that mean all our actions are not our responsibility? It is G-d’s responsibility of our behaviour?

You ask one of the most fundamental questions of our faith.
A distinction must be drawn between our physical selves – the atoms, molecules, cells and tissue that make up the part of us that can be observed and measured by scientific means – and our TRUE essence… our soul. The spiritual component that “inhabits” the physical body. The part that science cannot observe and therefore denies. The REAL us. This soul is where the ability to exercise free will resides. Again, a concept that is at best a difficulty for – if not flat out denied by – modern scientific thought. Our ability to choose freely from any and all possible choices we encounter, including how we choose and how we choose to deal with the consequences of our choices – that is what makes us a being that is more Divine than it is animal. And it is the actions that result from our exercising our free will that we are wholly responsible for. Only an action that is *truly* out of our control is in the realm of “G-d’s responsibility.”
I hope this clarifies these vitally important points.
Be well,
Rabbi Moshe Rosenstein