The Buddha has advised everyone to abstain from killing. If everybody accepts this advice human beings would not kill each other. In the case where a person's life is threatened the Buddha says even then it is not advisable to kill out of self protection. In recent years many scientists and some religionists have used the expressions like 'humane killing, 'mercy killing', gentle killing' and 'painless killing' to justify the ending of a life. Buddhism can never accept these arguments because it is not how the killing occurs that is important but the fact that a life of one being is terminated by another. No one has any right to do that for whatever
