Question: Is it allowed to “give” by force? Maybe we
save someone’s life in such a way? Is this mercy?
Answer: No, this is not mercy. Saving the body is not always mercy. I
will give you an example of how bodies of the dying ones are saved sometimes. My
90-year old aunt was close to her end; it was her natural death of senility. But
a doctor started “saving” her: a nurse was coming and regularly giving her injections
of heart stimulators. Her agony lasted for many days until her sister came to know
about it and protested: what are you doing?! Why don’t you let her die peacefully?
Then a doctor showed true mercy and prescribed soporific instead of heart stimulators,
and everything finished quickly and smoothly.
This is an example of unreasonable and forced love. Would you like to die this
way?
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