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Question 84

I work as a physician and have a question about a recurring medical situation. Some patients suffer a severe stroke that may cause complete loss of consciousness, while the patient remains alive and may still feel pain, as indicated by movements of the hands and legs in response to pain. We provide such patients with available treatments so long as the patient can tolerate the treatment or it may improve the condition; for example, if a stroke patient also has cancer, we may not give cancer treatment if it will not improve the patient's overall condition. My questions are: 1. Some such patients already have a feeding tube connected directly to the stomach through the abdominal wall because of another prior illness. After the stroke and loss of consciousness, the family may ask us to stop nutrition through the tube. This may hasten death, which is expected soon anyway because of the stroke and its complications. May I comply with the family's request? 2. If the family pressures me to stop tube feeding, especially where local culture and customs differ from ours and most people are atheists, may I comply? 3. If the stroke patient is sufficiently conscious and personally asks that tube feeding be stopped, or had previously told relatives that if he lost consciousness they should inform the doctor of his wish to stop treatment and nutrition, may I comply with the patient's wish? 4. Finally, what is the legal ruling on active euthanasia, which, praise be to God, is not permitted in Sweden?

Ahmed al-Hasan Response:

1. If a specialist physician diagnoses the patient's condition as described in the question, it is permissible to stop nutritional support through the tube. 2 and 3. Their answer is clear from the above: in all of these situations, it is permissible to stop supplying nutrition. 4. Killing the patient is not permissible even if the patient is suffering from illness and there is certainty that death will occur very soon. However, if the patient's life depends on machines or nutritional support, it is permissible to stop those machines or supplies and thereby hasten the end of the patient's life.

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Source: الأجوبة الفقهية (مسائل متفرقة - ج4); Question 84; Page Not available; FIQH-MISC-V4-Q084. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗

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  1. ↑ السيد أحمد الحسن. الأجوبة الفقهية (مسائل متفرقة - ج4). Question 84; Page Not available. FIQH-MISC-V4-Q084. View Arabic source
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الأجوبة الفقهية (مسائل متفرقة - ج4) — السيد أحمد الحسن. Question: 84. Page: Not available. FIQH-MISC-V4-Q084. https://ahmedalhasan.org/ar/Library/BookContent/100

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