http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/1283 A Daily Dose of Buddhist Wisdom Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/1283/comment-page-1#comment-1887 Don Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:11:43 +0000 http://www.dailybuddhism.com/?p=1283#comment-1887 Freewill becomes of foremost importantce here, we all have the freewill to decide how to live and how to die, I believe. I agree with Midlands, allowing the inevidable to take place without artificial means is neither murder or suicide, but just the freewill of the spirit to move on. Freewill becomes of foremost importantce here, we all have the freewill to decide how to live and how to die, I believe. I agree with Midlands, allowing the inevidable to take place without artificial means is neither murder or suicide, but just the freewill of the spirit to move on.

]]> http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/1283/comment-page-1#comment-1854 Midlands Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:52:26 +0000 http://www.dailybuddhism.com/?p=1283#comment-1854 I like the legal way of dealing with this issue. Removing life-support is not committing murder because life-support only prevents the inevitable that would occur without it. It is not a separate intervening cause (novus actus interveniens). As such, taking someone off life-support simply allows a person to take die as they would otherwise have done. Murder or suicide would be to take a life when the person would otherwise have lived. I like the legal way of dealing with this issue. Removing life-support is not committing murder because life-support only prevents the inevitable that would occur without it. It is not a separate intervening cause (novus actus interveniens). As such, taking someone off life-support simply allows a person to take die as they would otherwise have done. Murder or suicide would be to take a life when the person would otherwise have lived.

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