Editing Assisted suicide (section)

=====Islam=====
According to a rigid approach, the Muslim doctor should not intervene directly to voluntarily take the life of the patient, not even out of pity (Islamic Code of Medical Ethics, Kuwait 1981); he must see whether the patient is curable or not, not whether he must continue to live. Similarly, he must not administer drugs that accelerate death, even after an explicit request by relatives; acceleration of this kind would correspond to murder. Quran 3.145 states: "Nor can a soul die except by God's leave, the term being fixed as by writing"; Quran 3.156 continues "It is God that gives Life and Death, and God sees well all that ye do", resulting that God has fixed the length of each life, but leaves room for human efforts to save it when some hope exists. The patient's request for his life to be ended has in part been evaluated by juridical doctrine in some aspects. The four "canonical" Sunnite juridical schools (Hanafi te, Malikite, Shafi 'ite and Hanbalite) were not unanimous in their pronouncements. For all, the request or permission to be killed does not make the action, which remains a murder, lawful; however, the disagreement concerns the possibility of applying punishments to those that cause death: the Hanafi tes are in favour; the Hanbalites, the Shafi 'ites and the Malikites are partly in favour and partly contrary to penal sanctions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nohra |first=Fouad |date=1 December 2014 |title=Pouvoir politique, droits fondamentaux et droit à la révolte : la doctrine religieuse face aux processus révolutionnaires dans le monde arabe |url=http://journals.openedition.org/revdh/922 |journal=Revue des droits de l'homme |issue=6 |doi=10.4000/revdh.922 |issn=2264-119X |doi-access=free |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006041230/http://journals.openedition.org/revdh/922 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 1995 the Muslim Medical Doctors Conference in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) reasserted that euthanasia (not better defined) goes against the principles of Islam; this is also valid in the military context, prohibiting a seriously wounded soldier from committing suicide or asking other soldiers to kill him out of pity or to avoid falling into enemy hands.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gurcum |first1=Banu Hatice |last2=Ozcan |first2=Nazan |title=Searching for Form in Textile Art with Traditional Cit Weaving |date=31 August 2016 |journal=Idil Journal of Art and Language |volume=5 |issue=24 |doi=10.7816/idil-05-24-10 |issn=2146-9903|doi-access=free }}</ref>