Santhara/Sallekhana Scholarship
Jain voluntary death by fasting is a relatively obscure religious practice, done by a very few elderly religious folks. It has not received much scholarly attention in Western academia. Three scholars currently researching the practice are British anthropologist and philosopher James Laidlaw, Canadian anthropologist Anne Vallely and American bioethicist Whitny Braun.
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