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One of the toughest situations a parent could face is watching his or her child slowly pass away from an incurable and painful disease. As time goes on, the child’s only hope for living for perhaps a few weeks or months is by the aid of a life-support system. The doctor has asked the parent if he or she has considered taking the child off the support system, and donating the organs to other children in great need. How do you respond? Do you choose to have your child remain on life-support, or you take the life altering decision of removing him or her and allow your child’s organs to be donated? If I were in such a painful and overwhelming position, I would choose to allow the doctors to remove my child from the life-support system, and to donate my child’s organs to other unhealthy children. I will justify my decision from a Mahayana Buddhist perspective, while explaining the ideas of sila, metta, karuna, dana, and kusala, and I will also account for all the pros and cons of each course of action. Sila means doing good and refraining from doing evil with bodily action and speech. Right View and Right Attitude encourage sila because once you see the truth, you are no longer inclined to use your body or speech for harming y