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Indian Ethics do not support any kind of euthanasia on the grounds that :

  • A.Life is immaterial and one doesn't have to bother about the type of death.
  • B.Any thought of death is sinful.
  • C.Life is a divine gift and one gets it as per the result of past Karmas.
  • D.Any thought of death is meaningless.

Answer: C

The ground is that life is a divine gift and one gets it as per the result of past Karmas.

In the Indian traditions, life is received according to one's karma and is to be lived out so that karma can work itself out. Cutting it short by deliberate killing, even out of compassion, interferes with that process and is generally condemned as a form of violence (himsa).

The other options misstate the tradition. Indian ethics does not hold that life is immaterial, and it does not say that any thought of death is sinful or meaningless: reflection on death is in fact encouraged in many schools.

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