Very interesting topic. Well I'm not sure if you're aware, but there is a doctor by the name of Jack Kevorkian- he is a US doctor, who use to perform Euthanasia (The act of killing a terminally ill person painlessly for reason's of mercy) He would provide all the stuff needed and give it to the patients who had personally asked him for help to die because they were terminally ill and didn't wanna go through the pain. So it was not the doctor's fault at all- he just respected the wishes of those who had a terminal illness and seriously wanted to die to avoid the extremely painful procedures. However, this doctor went to jail many times for this act- then he got out- people argued against him, while others argued that it wasn't his fault since the patients had asked for it. When he came out of jail- he continued to do the same thing but this time he would tape the terminally ill patient first, in which the patient would talk and say that he was doing this on his own will and had asked Dr. Kevorkian to help him die. Unfortunately that didn't work either, and this doctor was once again placed in jail- he remained in jail after that and the act of performing euthanasia became illegal in the US.
I personally think that it wasn't the doctor's fault at all. God forbid (and I repeat that a million time), if someone I knew or love has a terminal illness- it will KILL me to let them die- BUT I will respect their wishes. Sometimes the patient is in soooooooo much pain- that they actually tell you they wanna die-plz let them die- they don't wanna be placed on machinery in order to stay alive. I'll be heart broken, but I'll have to respect their wishes, because as people have said before- if you continue to keep a loved one alive on machinery even after you see them in so much pain, and they tell you they wanna die- then you're just being selfish.
Someone I know just recently passed away one and half year ago due to Cancer. He was a father of 3 kids and when he found out he had cancer- he use to always say, "I?ll survive- I?ll fight back; I wanna be with my kids- I'll be healthy enough to see them grow up and on n on- This man had so much courage- he really wanted to live. He went through all that horrible pain and other medical procedures- for a whole year. However, there came a time when he, who always wanted to live and fight back- begged his wife to tell the doctors to let him die and stop the painful procedure.
- So I know it's a very hard thing to do when you gotta decide for your loved ones or whoever- but I personally believe that when the patient is in so much pain that they actually ask you to plz let them die peacefully without the pain- THEN you gotta respect their wishes :!:
And as for if it's wrong or not- Only Allah (Swt) knows best-!
