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medical doctor is Euthanasia. When psychologically due to frustration, unsuccess, defeat in love, great loss in business, poverty, failure, life is ended willingly is suicide.
Sallekhana - a ritual vow which is laudable where there is no desire for life & aim is of moksa.
When person is killed by someone is murder. Death is caused by some other person. without or against one's wish is murder.
Death is natural which comes naturally accidently unnoticed.
Abortion when person is killed in the womb at any stage after conception is killing of human being in has fetus stage inside womb before his development for social reason if fetụs is girl child, or pregnancy is by rape or accidental, or unwanted, or for economic purpose, or pregnancy is outcome of pleasure & no commitment is made by parents, or abnormal defective or because of congenital defect means any medical problem is foretold. All such death murder, suiside, Euthanan sallekhana, capital punishment, abortion are killing human being & nothing less than
killing.
What is Euthanasia? It means "good or happy death” term is often equated with “mercy killing.” Euthanasia means easy death, without severe suffering by intervention of medicine, to reduce final agony, for purpose of putting life to an end, or ending suffering, or saving abnormal babies who are mentally ill or incurable,ʻsick from the prolongation for many years of miserable life which could impose too heavy burden on their families or on society, & may by Euthanasia all the sufferings are eliminated.
There is right to life but is there also a right to die?
What do we do when right to life conflict as in situation where not everyone's life can be sustained due to scarcity of medical resources? Life is boundaries between life & death.
. “Right to life" is violated by self or by others is voluntary or involuntary. E.g. in capital punishment, sallekhana, abortion, selective termination of life in pregnancy, in multiple pregnancy, murder, Euthanasis, mercy killing, in case of infertility in process of GIFT or IVF, cloning, suicide.
What is life? Life is from the day of conception after female ova is fertilized by male sex cell sperm called zygote or embryo is potential of becoming human being is ending in death. One is dead when his heart stops beating but people can sometimes be revived from this state so now death should be defined in terms of irreversible loss of all electrical activity in the brain, or it should be defined in terms of irreversible loss of consciousness. It is necessary condition of being
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