Is euthanasia right or wrong-1

Euthanasia is term which has been recently became more popular and active, reason may be the advancement of science and weak physical strength or anemic humans.Its main aim is to lessen the pain of an individual by killing him on account of  cut his/her suffering off or giving artificial death.Well if you will think practically then you find it conscientious but I wanna let you think once more about it.Giving death to someone is really justifiable,I am talking of death a major incident for a man which make him always fear of it, are humans  are now so much superior that they have right to decide life or death.If you are not the father of life then who are you to obliterate it, god is all above so let him decide.According to me if you have been naturally born then yours death should also be natural because god is running this whole universe and he knows better than you that what to do with an individual.Lets see what various scriptures says about it-

HINDUISM-

In Hinduism every thing is related to karma and they believe in cycle of birth and death.Let me explain this more clearly.

According to Vedas man has only to trust worthy friends in life, the first is called Vidya (knowledge), and the 2nd is called Mrityu (Death). The former is something that is beneficial and a requirement in life, and the latter is something that is inevitable sometimes even unexpected. It is not the euthanasia that is the act of sin, but wordily attachment which causes euthanasia to be looked upon as an act of sin. Even a Sanyasin or Sanyasini if they decide to, are permitted to end his or her life with the hope of reaching moksha (free from cycle of birth and death).But you can not get this reward by yourself its he almighty who will decide it.Well sometimes Hinduism says that helping to end a painful life a person is performing good deed and so fulfilling their moral obligations.On the other hand ending a life even an individual is suffering you are disturbing the timing of the cycle of death and rebirth.This is not good moreover you are taking the remaining Karma of the patient.However, the sane argument suggests that keeping a person artificially alive on a life-support machines would also be a bad thing to do.

Now lets see different views on it as euthanasia or mercy killing statements are given in Srila prabhupada:

                                    They say,"oh, it is better to kill him than to give him so much pain" 

And this theoty is coming in communist countries like in Africa there is a class of men who make festival by killing their great-grandfathers.

According to the Vedic knowledge brahmana, old men, child, woman and cow, they have no fault and they are free.They do not have any link within this jurisdiction of law.So killing them is accepted as the great sinful activities.Now,suppose a devotee refuses medication or fasts until he leaves his body, and he is doing to himself,not to other person and he is preparing to go back to his home means god, not to get free of bodily distress, such a devotee knows that it is time for him to leave this world,so why continuing maintaining body..It should not be done to get rid of painful condition of life, and friends according to me in mordern world this theory fails because now no one is such close to God that he could decide when an individual time has come to leave this earth, as this theory could be valid only for that time because then people were much more contiguous.This is not the same as suicide. It is not done as a means of getting free of a painful condition of life. That is specifically defined by Lord Caitanya as "harassment" of the Supreme Lord. There is a story illustrating this very point narrated by Locan das Thakura in his Caitanya Mangala, about a South Indian brahmana who vowed to commit suicide in the presence of Lord Jagannatha because he could not endure his extreme poverty any longer. Lord Caitanya became very unhappy with this person.

In the US there is a doctor named Kevorkian who has build a rolling suicide laboratory in the back of a van. People who are terminally ill and suffering greatly from the disease call him, and he puts them in his van, sticks a needle in their arm, and tells them to press a button that will inject a powerful drug into their bloodstream that brings on unconsciousness and death. These unfortunate people think that death is the end of all suffering, so if death is made as painless as possible, that's the best way to go. "The best death" for a karmi is to die in peaceful sleep (total ignorance, in other words). But there is a next life which is determined by the thoughts of our last moments in this life. It doesn't take much imagination to envision where an unconscious person will end up in his next birth.

Thus, Hindu Garuda purana says that-

Garuda Purana 2.22.8-13: "Those who meet with foul death such as committing suicide by hanging from a tree, by poison or weapon, those who die of cholera, those who are burnt to death alive, those who die of foul and loathsome diseases or at the hands of robbers, those who are not cremated duly after death, those who do not follow sacred rites and conduct, those who do not perform Vrsotsarga and monthly pinda rites, those who allow sudras to bring sacrificial grass, twigs and other articles of homa, those who fall from mountains and die, those who die when walls collapse, those who are defiled by women in their menses, those who die in the firmament and those who are forgetful of Visnu, those who continue to associate with persons defiled due to births or death, those who die of dog-bitting or meet with death in a foul manner, become ghosts and roam over the earth." So, you let the things go in order not to interfere in one`s karma.


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