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Euthanasia: Killing is BAD Karma, it's NOT compassionate | 1st Precept | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question about Euthansia.
He explains that the Buddha never encouraged or condoned the killing of other human beings at all, never mind the supposed motive or justification.
The first precept to abstain from intentionally killing of living beings is unambiguous - it has no 'exceptions' under any circumstance.
Any killing of human beings is very serious karma.
However, if we participate in, or encourage, the killing ("euthanasia") of our mother or father (which can easily occur in the context of "euthanasia"), we're getting involved in what the Buddha declared as…
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