Removal of respirators from brain-dead not permissible’
Mariam Al Hakeem; 13/8/08
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Al Shaikh has affirmed that removal of respirators from brain-dead people and babies born with disability is not permissible since their hearts beat naturally. Addressing a meeting of senior doctors in Taif city, he also said that it is prohibited to force prisoners sentenced to death to donate their organs and treat as brain-dead persons. “It is right to execute them, but there is no right to cut a part of their organs,” he explained. “It is wrong to take some parts of the body of a person sentenced to death and then carry out the death penalty on him. This is not permissible,” he added.
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