Treatment Using Medicine That Precipitates the Death
Miscellaneous Issues
If a person - for a temporary cure or killing pain - takes a medicine that significantly advances the time of death...
Q: If a person - for a temporary cure or killing pain - takes a medicine
that significantly advances the time of death, what does Islam say about that?
A: If it does precipitate the death, it is not a treatment. In any case,
if it is free of any considerable, rational adverse effect, there is no problem
in taking it for treating.
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