Human Dignity And The Right To Die

Until recently that emerging new medical technologies have obligated societies to review their traditional positions toward death and dying, death was a mysterious and challenging social concept, usually dealt with in the shade of a religious-metaphysical context. In Islam while human is highly dignified as the vicegerent of Allah, death, the separation of soul from the body, is known as an existential, inevitable, unavoidable, continuous and including a process, containing hardship and constriction, purposeful toward the creator and a transitional state from this world toward Hereafter that is created and controlled by God. Thus the religion’s approach toward “human dignity” and “the right to die” is fundamental in order to solve those ethical conflicts that mostly emerge at the end of life such as euthanasia and forgoing treatments especially withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining medical interventions. Contrary to rights such as life, work, marriage and medical care that are recognized by the Cairo De...