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This paper examines and compares the standards and moral guidelines of the Christian and Buddhist faiths regarding suicide and euthanasia, and then demonstrates how the modern, secular, and moral stand on these issues is founded on these same guidelines.

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"Within this work several sources will demonstrate the tenets of the similarities and differences of the ethical view of both Christina and Buddhist on suicide. Within the Encyclopedia of Religion there is a basic overview of the standards of faiths upon issues regarding the taking of ones life. The Buddhist view will be farther examined through the work of Damien Keown, who details three examples of suicide in the Pali Canon of the Buddhist faith, and Carl Becker, who writes extensively on the issue of suicide and euthanasia from the Buddhist perspective. Additionally selected works by and about the famous church father Augustine will demonstrate the Christian ethic on suicide."

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