Is it permissible for a doctor to stop medication for a patient in the final stage of dying?
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The questioner : ... One question: Is it possible for the doctor, first, to stop medication for a patient in his final stage of dying? And the transfer of organs from one patient to another patient who needs that organ? Thirdly: terminating the pregnancy ... the first one, which is this path, or preventing pregnancy from occurring in ...?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... Regarding the patient in the final stage of dying, regarding ... stopping the machines before the final stage of dying until death after the failure, the failure of all treatments, if the doctor is convinced that there is no benefit from using the medications, then there is no doubt in the permissibility of that; because the original state, excuse me, means ... [Everyone laughs!], the original state of medications is that they are not all in the same category regarding the obligation to adhere to and take them. So some of the medications are ... in the treatment; so it is obligatory to take them, and some of them are not ... in that, but rather there is this ... so it is good to use them, and some of them are more ... this must be left. So if the doctor has reached this level, as is clear from the question, I do not think it is merely permissible; rather, it is obligatory.
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... Regarding the patient in the final stage of dying, regarding ... stopping the machines before the final stage of dying until death after the failure, the failure of all treatments, if the doctor is convinced that there is no benefit from using the medications, then there is no doubt in the permissibility of that; because the original state, excuse me, means ... [Everyone laughs!], the original state of medications is that they are not all in the same category regarding the obligation to adhere to and take them. So some of the medications are ... in the treatment; so it is obligatory to take them, and some of them are not ... in that, but rather there is this ... so it is good to use them, and some of them are more ... this must be left. So if the doctor has reached this level, as is clear from the question, I do not think it is merely permissible; rather, it is obligatory.
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