The Ruling on Stopping Treatment for a Patient with Brain Death

Question:
A questioner says: I am a doctor, and there are some patients who have cancer that has spread throughout the body with no cure, according to our knowledge, or clots in the brain with no cure, according to our knowledge. It happens that the heart of one of them stops while he is in the hospital, and the consultants, who are the senior doctors, tell us there is no need to give them medication or anything else that would restore the heartbeat to the heart; let him die, because his death is better than his life as a disabled person dependent on others. Is it permissible for me to obey this consultant and let the patient die?

Answer:
If there is a treatment that is given to the deceased, if there is no treatment, just a machine that keeps him there, and he is not dead, dead, there is no benefit. But if there is a treatment that restores the health of the heart, restores its function, benefits the heart, then it is not permissible; it is obligatory. As for if there is not, if it is just giving something that makes the heart beat, and there is no life, there is no life, but rather it just tortures him, tortures him, tortures his family, there is no benefit. This has been studied in the Fiqh Academy, and we brought a group of doctors. Sometimes it may happen that this [heart] may beat, but otherwise there is no life. What does life mean? The brain is dead, and there is no spirit, just a machine beating by the machine. If the machine is delayed and the pulse goes, and the known stage of death ends, if the machines are what are moving this, then there is no life, meaning the doctors say there is no life, there is no need for the machine.