Abstract
AbstractTechnologies used in medicine have meant that treatments can keep people biologically alive but often fail to provide meaningful recovery and quality of life. Many of those from the Islamic faith have relied on these technologies for recovery on religious grounds, even when it may be against clinical advice. This commentary seeks to challenge this notion among many Muslims and suggests there is a psycho-spiritual motivation within the Islamic tradition in not pursuing intensive care treatment that is deemed futile by clinicians. A wish to embrace death in these situations should be expressed to loved ones, and the dying person’s loved ones should be encouraged to embrace death, in order to minimise harm from disagreements between clinical staff and family.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Religious studies,General Medicine,General Nursing
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