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The Catholic Church opposes active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide on the grounds that life is a gift from God and should not be prematurely shortened. However, the church allows dying people to refuse extraordinary treatments that would minimally prolong life without hope of recovery, [5] a form of passive euthanasia.
A BBC Religions article from 2009 cites Lipner's "Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia" (1989) and states that if the mother's life is at risk, Hinduism permits abortion. [17] The general value system of Hinduism teaches that the correct course of action in any given situation is the one that causes the least harm to those involved.
Prayopavesa (Sanskrit: प्रायोपवेशनम्, prāyopaveśanam, lit. ' resolving to die through fasting ') [1] [2] is a practice in Hinduism that ...
Religious views on euthanasia; S. Sallekhana This page was last edited on 11 May 2023, at 17:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Muslims view life as a gift from Allah to humans. In Islamic law, preserving life is one of the five essential objectives. [37] [38] [39] Islamic teachings emphasize that life in this world is temporary and is a period of testing, an abode of trials and tribulations and that true life is the hereafter, where
Active euthanasia is still ruled illegal, whereas passive euthanasia is legal and embraced as “Songenshi” or “death with dignity as the withholding or withdrawing of life-prolonging treatment.” (Kumar, 2023) The Japanese point of view on suicide is not sinful, but rather the act of assisted suicide being considered as a murder-for-hire ...
For example, the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, wrote many Islamic devotional songs for mainstream Bengali folk music. [24] He also explored Hindu devotional music by composing Shyama Sangeet, Durga Vandana, Sarswati Vandana, bhajans and kirtans, often merging Islamic and Hindu values. Nazrul's poetry and songs explored the ...
This category is for articles about interfaith dialog, religious pluralism and ecumenism between Hinduism and Islam. For articles and categories involving both religions, use Category:Hinduism and Islam.