Necessities and Barriers to Legalization of Euthanasia in Iran

Euthanasia is a contentious issue in medical and legal assemblies. This issue is related to ‎incurable patients who tolerate a lot of problems during the patience period, demanding life ‎deprivation, for some reason. A few countries have legalized some types of euthanasia, and ‎some others have reduced the punishment of perpetrators. But this is not recognized as legal ‎in Iran and it is considered as murder. This research has studied about necessities and barriers ‎to the legalization of euthanasia, by descriptive and analytical method. Required resources ‎were collected and analyzed with the library method. Finally, pain relief of patients, ‎Demographic characteristics and the aging crisis ahead, high cost of maintaining patients, ‎adaptation of euthanasia to the meaning of life and Creation goals were recognized as the ‎most important necessities. The most important Barriers included Quran and jurisprudential, ‎Legal and human rights constraints, ethical limitations and non-demand and social ‎acceptance. It seems that, barriers to legalization of euthanasia in Iran, are stronger than its ‎necessities, and overcoming them is not easy.‎