As salaamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
Dass aktive Sterbehilfe haram ist, leuchtet mir ein. Bei der passiven bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob hier nicht aneinander vorbei geredet wird.
Zu diesem Thema habe ich folgende Fatwa gefunden:
Many doctors hesitate to decide the right time to turn off the life support systems of a person who is clinically dead. The doctor has two conflicting feelings: he may think that he is prolonging the agony of the dying person, and that if he turns of the life support system, he will be giving the person the relief of dying. On the other hand, however, he fears that by turning the life support systems off, he is depriving the person of the opportunity to continue living. When is it permissible to turn off the life support systems in the case of people who are clinically dead?
Praise be to Allaah.
In sharee’ah, a person is considered to be dead and therefore subject to all the rulings concerning the deceased, when either of the two following signs are noted:
When his heartbeat and breathing stop completely, and the doctors decide that they cannot be restarted.
When all the functions of his brain stop completely, and experienced doctors and specialists state that this is irreversible, and his brain has started to disintegrate.
In these circumstances, it is permissible to turn off life support systems, even if some parts of his body – such as the heart, for example – are still functioning artificially with the help of these machines.
Majma’ al-Fiqh al-Islami, p. 36.
http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/1824
Der Fall, der in der Frage beschrieben wird, scheint sich ja um passive Sterbehilfe zu drehen oder irre ich mich und die Ethik-Stunden, in denen ich das Thema behandelte, liegen zu weit zurück?
Kennt jemand andere Aussagen von Gelehrten unserer Zeit bezüglich diesem Thema? Denn das Thema ist wohl doch komplizierter als es scheint und jeder Fall verdient wohl eine eigene Fatwa.
Wassalaamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh