The Reduction of the Value of Human Life to that of a Passing Pleasure in Atheistic Based Arguments for Euthanasia.

Atheists have argued for euthanasia as the means necessary to alleviate human suffering and thereby act in a compassionate manner to be more humane. One premise assumed in the atheistic argument is man's life is ordered towards pleasure and comfort in accord with normal health. Human health is then a good in itself, but health and human life is for the sake of pleasure.  And when pleasure is removed through suffering, the human life becomes unworthy of living and must be resolved by the termination of human life.

The atheist's argument is reducible down to man exists for pleasure, and when pleasure is removed, the reason for existence is removed. Therefore when the reason for existence is removed, man should be removed through euthanasia. The value of man is reduced down to a passing feeling of an emotion. Such a value of man assumes a materialist understanding of man and an associated secular horizontalism concerning reality which excludes any reference to a transcendent God, or life after death.

Contrarily, the value of man in Christianity is far greater than a passing pleasure. For man has an immortal soul and has been created by God to see God in the next life. Man then has a value beyond the secular order of reality and a value in proportion to man's imitation of God and order towards God as the ultimate true good.

Conclusion - The atheist's argument for euthanasia is based upon the false premise of man's fulfilment or order towards only the pleasant good apart from the fitting good of God as the true ultimate end of man. Atheism's false materialist understanding of man does conclude to the avoidance of suffering as the greatest evil in life, and the promotion of euthanasia to avoid suffering. 

Yet because man is not a materialist reality, but a composite of body and soul, suffering is then not the greatest evil in life, but sin is the greatest evil that removes the ultimate end of man as God seen face to face. As euthanasia is objectively gravely disordered, euthanasia is an act that is ordered towards men committing mortal sin and having the true ultimate end removed in the damnation of those who practice such acts.