Euthanasia According to Islamic Jurisprudence and Legal System

• Main Authors: B Yadollahpour, A Yousefi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Babol University of Medical Sciences 2013-02-01
• Series: Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul
• Subjects: Euthanasia; The right to life; The right to death; Nemesis.
• Online Access: http://jbums.org/article-1-4324-en.html

ABSTRACTBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Euthanasia is a phenomenon that is considered as principal problem of bioethics encountering a society. Surveying some contemporary scholars` view display that when an individual kills a person who is suffering for a long term from incurable disease, then he is not committed to any crime or non ethical practice. Of course it is dependent on good will and motive based on pityingly acts, consequently insolvent person (with severe pain) dies and does not suffer more. In this situation, not only killer has not committed inhumanity, but also his/her act is like as humanitarian. Because, by this act he/she cause not to suffer insolvent person more and helped him/her to separate his/her soul from his body without double pain and suffer. The present research after dealing with semantics of graceful killing tries to survey this act from Islamic Jurisprudences point of view.METHODS: Inquiry in religious Islamic scholars and jurists texts, books and traditions as well as opinions, judgments and speeches, working methods of jurisprudence and legal basis was in the phenomenon of euthanasia.FINDINGS: From all Islamic Jurisprudences view imposable statement Pityingly killing is sanctity according to evidence of sanctity of manslaughter. But, Jurisconsults have different ideas about its situational judgment. Some know slains satisfaction to decline lextalionis and atonement from killer and somebody infer not to decline lextalionis and atonementCONCLUSION: From all Islamic Jurisprudences view imposable statement Pityingly kill is sanctity according to evidence of sanctity of manslauter, by surveying evidence of two statements, vote of plenipotentiary, it is to decline lextalionis and atonement from killer.