Because they have to make sure that they interfere with the will and life of everyone on this planet

I guess because it is like they are playing G-d. And that it isn't their decision to end that person's life.

People want to hang on and stay as close as they can to a person, while I think life support is silly, You must admit it would be incredibly hard to let go aof a loved one, religious or not.

Life is important to let it end is wrong just like carring a baby to term.

idk but their stupid and i really hate when ppl do that

Maybe deep down they know that there may not be an after life... Or they just believe there's a chance that person could still come back.

Perhaps as has already been answered here, in many cases it's hard to let go of a loved one for what they believe will be decades, and for what they fear may be forever. As an agnostic who doesn't believe that there's a cosmic reunion realm but wishes that there was one, I can relate. ;)

Maybe they think that the person will not get into heaven if you interfear with the natural life ending process.. Like people who are jahova wittness wont get blood tranfusions and blood products from hospitals because they think they will not get into heaven if they do! ..

I've wondered that too, and I think there are several possibilities. One is that it belies an actual lack of faith or lack of trust in God. They may be hedging their bets, so to speak, by talking about God a lot without actually talking to Him or listening for Him and then they don't have the faith to trust Him. Another possibility is that they have forgotton that there is a difference between causing death and allowing death. None of us get out of here alive, no matter how fervently we believe. We all have to die. Modern medicine only delays the inevitable. We spend so much time talking about saving lives that we forget that we never really save a life, we just prolong it. Sooner or later, that person plucked by helicopter and saved from the raging flood, or that person saved by open heart surgery or chemotherapy is still going to die. Taking someone off life support isn't playing God. God is trying to take that person home to rest and we are preventing it. Keeping them ON lifesupport is playing God. We are stepping in and saying "No God, it hurts too much, I refuse to suffer the pain and you can't have them. We forget in our attempt to avoid suffering that we are likely placing more suffering on the person dying, and it is their death after all, not ours. And finally, again, I think some people feel that to pull life support is to kill the person and that it violates the commandment not to kill. But again, we all die some time. You aren't actually killing the person, you are just stepping back and letting the inevitable happen. When my own mother's cancer recurred, I made a promise to her. I told her I would help her fight it as long as she wanted to fight it, and that when she didn't want to fight anymore, I would support that too. For six years my husband and I took her to chemotherapy and doctor's appointments and took care of her, while at the same time taking care of our baby, who also had cancer and was having chemo. And after six years, with good options running out and only really tough chemo treatments left, she decided she'd had enough, even though she was still functional. She just didn't want to be sick anymore. And we supported her in that to. Less than five months after she made the decision to stop fighting, she was gone. I miss her more than I can say, but I am comfortable knowing I did the best I could for her, and I let her dictate the circumstances under which her life ended, as much as was possible.

I'm spiritual, and I do believe in letting people off life support at a certain point. There is a line between "saving a life" and "preventing death" I think it cruel to "prevent death", of course, I'm all for "saving life"

I am religious and I would refuse life support! If it is my time I'm ready! I would also refuse life support for any one in my family including transplants! Sorry if people don't like that! God's will is God's will, and that is MY faith!

Hmmmmm... Religious or no, the act of determining a loved ones physical fate, is an enormous burden. There are all sorts of questions that arise.. is it what they would want.. and if it is... is this the time... could I be wrong? I personally don't see how, or why, a religious belief in God, or an afterlife, could possibly change a decision, so rooted in this physical world. Forgiveness for mistakes, yes... but be it not I alone, for concern.

They believe that only God has the sacred power of life and death.

No life support for me unless I am dying!