Should The Life Support Be Withdrawn For Critically ILL People

[00:00:10] Question (shown on screen): Swamiji, can the life support be withdrawn for critically near death beings?

[00:00:20] You are asking about withdrawal of life support for baby’s. Please Understand Ma, no question of withdrawal of life support for anybody. Please do not, do. Death has to be natural. And you have to support artificially as much as you can, “Life”. see there is new...some more new technology comes up, to prolong life in the body. You have to do that.

[00:00:52] Because every moment you spend in the body, especially during those last days. Counts to reduce your karma. Please understand, this is the statement, all of you need to know. Hinduism makes it very clear, the more you are able to stay in the last phase of your life. Means after you stopped creating new karmas. When you fall into the death bed, you don’t create anymore new karma’s. After you fall into the bed, you are….you should be kept alive as long as possible....as long as possible.

[00:01:43] There are some of my disciples, they have written in their will, that a withdrawal of. If something happens to them, all the decisions about withdrawal of support, life support everything will be done by me. But, you yourself tell your relatives this should be the decision.

[00:02:00] Understand, all possible way maximum time, with all the artificial supports which is present now, which will come sooner. Your body should be kept alive. Even if one organ, only one organ heart is alive, everything else is dead and stinking, and deteriorating, you should, your heart should be kept beating. All of you understand?

[00:02:31] Because that grinding of the last moment karmas, and melting of the last moment karmas will be happening. So you should be kept as much as possible... through all the available support, and possible support. If any of you are doctors, I sincerely recommend, never ever support life withdrawal. Even if you have to change the profession, don’t allow. Don’t say, I will not do. And even if you are supposed to be in a place where life is withdrawn, don’t be. Don’t be. Because the being will curse you. That being once he leaves the body, he will curse you for making him take one more birth unnecessary.

[00:03:28] How many doctors are here? It’s my humble request. Please raise the hand fully, let me see… Do not support. Do not.. support life withdrawal please. Hm..It’s a terrible karma, equivelent to murder in the cosmos. In the cosmos it will be recorded only as a murder. So don’t ever support life withdrawal.

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