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How Does Hinduism Respond To Medical Ethics

This project is about how Hinduism responds to medical ethics; it will consist of issues about euthanasia, abortion, suicide and animal research. It will have many facts with some opinions and hopefully won’t be bias.

Euthanasia is ending a person’s life deliberately, but for compassionate reasons. Euthanasia is illegal in Britain, but the Voluntary Euthanasia Society campaigns for the law to be changed to allow it within a strictly controlled legal framework. This is the situation in the Netherlands, where euthanasia remains illegal, but provided certain procedures are carefully followed, a doctor who administers euthanasia will not be prosecuted in the courts.

But even in the Netherlands it is not as simple as some think, here are the guidelines:
-There must be persistent, informed and voluntary requests by a patient who is aware of all the alternative treatments.
-There must be relentless suffering.
-There must be an independent medical appraisal by at least one other d...

Posted by: Sandeep Jador

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