In this article, I have tried to understand how Buddhism recognizes suicide, euthanasia, the
care of patients dying of terminal illness and the acceptance of death with its basic principle …

In few areas have the advances in scientific knowledge and the new medical technologies
raised more basic questions about the very nature, meaning and value of human life than in …

Over the last 2,500 years, Buddhist teachings have been either foundational or influential in
most of Asia and recently have begun to move into the Western world through scholarship …

The prohibition on taking human life is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist ethics, but there
is often confusion about the interpretation of this prohibition in different contexts. In his …

BUDDHIST VIEWS OF SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA Page 1 490 Euthanasia, Sustaining, and
Ending Life English translation). His identification of the source of indignity in dying, however, is …

This paper aims to enhance of understanding of the issue of euthanasia, as well as to
analyze and apply the acquired knowledge to remind followers of all religions the …

In an earlier paper1 I have pointed to the well-known facts that suicide is by its nature a
crucial and very intricate problem from an ethical point of view and that Buddhism has a long …

The objective of this article is to apply Buddhist teachings to solve a controversial issue that
is euthanasia. It is Mercy killing by a doctor which is divided into three forms of it. However …

In the year of 2008, just before I would left Japan for Myanmar, a friend living in Tokyo half-
laughingly unfolded a startling fact:“I lose someone around me in suicide every three …

Japan, one of the leading industrial countries, has had one of the world's highest suicide
rates for years. This paper in its present form is a shortened version for publication in …