Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible

Life and death of men is in the discretion of Allah, SWT, no one can decide how long they should live, but it is Allah, SWT. However, today in our society life is being terminated by someone, like Doctor or the family of the patients, who are terminally ill and their recovery is absolutely irretrie...

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Main Author:	U Tun Aung, Maulana Akbar Shah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2017
Subjects:	RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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spelling	iium-583292017-09-13T03:58:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58329/ Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible U Tun Aung, Maulana Akbar Shah RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Life and death of men is in the discretion of Allah, SWT, no one can decide how long they should live, but it is Allah, SWT. However, today in our society life is being terminated by someone, like Doctor or the family of the patients, who are terminally ill and their recovery is absolutely irretrievable according to the medical experts as medication does not show any reaction. In medical science, ending life for such situation is called euthanasia, an act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures. Justification given by pro-Euthanasia is that it is right of the patient who should not suffer unstoppable pain physically and who does not like a burden of medication on their family. They insisted mercy killing is absolutely appropriate if patient’s body is in gradual decline, their organs are in continuous failure, their agonizing pain is unbearable and the cost of their artificial support system is beyond their limit. Raphael. Cohen-Almagor, Kluwer (2004). This issue has been controversial to many Islamic as well as social organizations as it is against their doctrine and norms. Since life and Death is in Allah’ hand, who is to decide that a life has to be ended at so and so time. Is it against predestination and fixation of life by Allah that when the time come no one can stop its arrival. This undesirable situation is confronted by many Muslims in our world too, then is there any room in Sahr’ia law that allows a Physician to end the life of a patient? The objective of this paper is to explore any possibility in Shar’ia law that authenticates ending a life. Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58329/2/Acceptence%20letter%20fpr%20UN.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58329/7/58329_EUTHANASIA_paper.pdf U Tun Aung, Maulana Akbar Shah (2017) Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible. International Medical journal Malaysia (IMJM). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1823-4631 (In Press) http://iiumedic.net/imjm/v1/about-imjm/
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description	Life and death of men is in the discretion of Allah, SWT, no one can decide how long they should live, but it is Allah, SWT. However, today in our society life is being terminated by someone, like Doctor or the family of the patients, who are terminally ill and their recovery is absolutely irretrievable according to the medical experts as medication does not show any reaction. In medical science, ending life for such situation is called euthanasia, an act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures. Justification given by pro-Euthanasia is that it is right of the patient who should not suffer unstoppable pain physically and who does not like a burden of medication on their family. They insisted mercy killing is absolutely appropriate if patient’s body is in gradual decline, their organs are in continuous failure, their agonizing pain is unbearable and the cost of their artificial support system is beyond their limit. Raphael. Cohen-Almagor, Kluwer (2004). This issue has been controversial to many Islamic as well as social organizations as it is against their doctrine and norms. Since life and Death is in Allah’ hand, who is to decide that a life has to be ended at so and so time. Is it against predestination and fixation of life by Allah that when the time come no one can stop its arrival. This undesirable situation is confronted by many Muslims in our world too, then is there any room in Sahr’ia law that allows a Physician to end the life of a patient? The objective of this paper is to explore any possibility in Shar’ia law that authenticates ending a life.
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title	Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible
title_short	Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible
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title_full_unstemmed	Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible
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publisher	Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
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Euthanasia from Islamic perspective: ending life of a patient who's recovery is absolutely impossible

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