Euthanasia

What

How

Why

Who

Assisted Suicide

Why do people want it

Who has legalised it?

A doc

Who wants it?

Who is involved

Belgium

Certified doctors and patients that requested it

Senior members of the public

What is the situation in NZ

Canada

Japan

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Scotland

It is illegal in New Zealand currently but is under consideration to change the law.

Why is it illegal

What are religious views on it?

What is my opinion?

Buddhism

Christianity

Many views about it, but are against euthanasia.

Buddhists are instructed not to deprive the life of any living organism, let alone humans. Euthanasia comes under taking the life of human beings.

Also, since the person requesting it is already suffering in the first place, they have already got bad karma and euthanising them will only increase their bad karma and give the doctor and anyione supportng the decision bad karma as well.

Catholism

Euthanasia is seen as a crime against life in the Roman Catholic Church.

However, while it completely opposes euthanasia, it allows people to refuse potentially life-saving treatment for their illness for a quicker death.

Protestants

They vary widely, and although some priests and clergymen have been euthanasia supporters, in general they are against it but more forgiving about it.

Hinduism

There are two different viewpoints of euthanasia in Hinduism.

Islam

Completely against euthanasia. They believe that God(or Allah) chooses how long each person will live for, and is a sin for interfering with this.

As a Buddhist, I am undecided. If people wish for it, then they should be allowed to end their lives peacefully, but it is definitely something I wouldn't take in my life even if it is legalised and no matter what.

On the other hand, a person doing that is disrupting the cycle of life and death, which isn't good, and the person will take the remaining karma of the euthanized person.

One is that a person helping another one in incurable pain to die is performing a good deed, because he is putting the pained person out of his/her misery.