ghatel tarahoom amiz

ghatel tarahoom amiz

jorm engari ya jorm zodaiee = Euthanasia in Iranian law: criminalization or decriminalization

Pourkhoshbakht, Golshid

2007/11/00

English

20071100

The present article is an attempt to investigate oh the national legislative policies in Iran on criminalization or decriminalization of euthanasia. On studying the issue, the existing regulations concerning homicide and the general rules intact by the law makers are reviewed. Euthanasia includes أCommission clear measures to kill a patientؤ. It is divided into أactiveؤ, and أpassiveؤ categories

through, أletting the patient dieؤ is still another case which in only delicately different from the former case. The approaches about criminalization or decriminalization on the issue at hand involve considering euthanasia as أa crimeؤ, أeuthanasia as a non-Crimeؤ and أintermediary euthanasiaؤ which considered the act as a crime if some conditions are fulfilled. In other words, relative criminalization of euthanasia is the third approach towards the issue and is the focus of attention of the present study. The present study at first seeks to review the ethical-philosophical bases of criminalization and decriminalization of euthanasia. The article elaborates on the life value and the importance of its quality, on the prescription of death by humans, and religious beliefs and trainings, as well as on the problems stemming from the cultural beliefs of the societies. The impacts of any of these in laws and regulations practiced in Iran will be well discussed. Attention will be also paid to some related issues such as suicides. With respect to all aspects on the issue, and understanding the national legislative policies, the article will attempt to study the presence of cultural beliefs or the social needs for criminalizing or decriminalizing euthanasia; yet the center of attention in the study focuses to the approaches mentioned above, with special attention to the third approach and its adjustment to general criminal laws in Iran.

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criminal law--[pri];euthanasia--[pri];Islamic ethics--[pri];legal aspects--[pri]

allowing to die;assisted suicide;attitudes;Islamic ethics;killing;legal liability;sharia

Iran--[pri]

First International Congress of Medical Law; Tehran, Iran; 2007 November 15-16; Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

First International Congress of Medical Law, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iranian Research Center for Ethics and Law in Medicine 2007 November 15-16

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Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Iranian Research Center for Ethics and Law in Medicine