Ethical and Legal Consideration In Ceasing Of Aid to the Life of Brain-Dead Persons

Development of Urbanism makes available a better life opportunity, but in contrary, put mental and physical health of human at many risks. in spite of the fact that preservation of health and treatment of the people that their health are at risk by illness, is the basic duty of medical community, but physicians sometimes encounter with some occurrences in the treatment process that performing of this basic duty is doubted.There is no doubt that medical science even with the best technology is still unable to cure some of the diseases. This inability put two ethical and legal questions in front of us. Is it desirable to do nothing for treatment of those that are not curable base on present medical knowledge? Is it acceptable to stop the treatment of those that different medical methods did not have any effect on them? Positive or negative answer to these questions followed by a legal discussion about the liability or non liability of physician and therapeutic cadre that refuse from treatment or stop continuing of treatment.Survey that is accomplished by this article, show that the acceptation of soul for human in ethical and legal system of Islam, get us to this conclusion that person is alive until we are certain about separation of soul from his body. In this condition, not only preservation of human life is desirable and avoidance of that is undesirable, but also physician and therapeutic cadre are responsible if they Refuse from treatment or stop continuing of treatment.