Ruling on removing life-support for a cancer patient
Question

                One year. 3 weeks back he collapsed and rushed to the hospital where he takes his regular treatment. He was put into life support machine and he is in a coma now. Doctos say that there is no cure or no other treatment available, and most of his organs are not functioning or only a small pecentage is functioning. No hope of survival. Cost to keep him in this condition is around 25,000SAR a day. His family is finding hard to bare it. As per the doctors, if the lfie support machine taken out, he will die. Is it allowed to do it? Can the family or doctors decide on it? Appreciate you advise on this regard.
Praise be to Allah.
      If your brother who has cancer is in the advanced stages of 
      the disease and three trustworthy specialist doctors agree that he will 
      certainly die if the life-support is removed and that there is no point in 
      treating him, there is no need to use life-support.  

    It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (25/80), 
    explaining the cases in which measures should not be taken to resuscitate 
    the patient: 

    1.

    If the patient is dead upon arrival at the hospital, there is 
    no need to resuscitate the patient. 

    2.

    If the patient's case is one in which resuscitation is not 
    appropriate, according to the report of three trustworthy specialist 
    doctors, there is also no need to resuscitate the patient. 

    3.

    If the patient’s sickness is chronic and untreatable and he 
    is definitely going to die according to three trustworthy specialist 
    doctors, there is also no need to use life-support. 

    4.

    If the patient is incapacitated or is vegetative state and 
    has a chronic disease or late-stage cancer, or has chronic heart and lung 
    disease, in which the heart and lungs have stopped frequently, and three 
    trustworthy specialist doctors confirm that, there is no need to use 
    life-support. 

    5.

    If a patient shows signs of brain damage that cannot be 
    treated according to three specialist trustworthy doctors, there is also no 
    need to use life-support, because there is no benefit in doing so. 

    6.

    If resuscitation of the heart and lungs will be to no avail 
    and is not appropriate in a given case according to the opinion of three 
    trustworthy specialist doctors, there is no need to use life-support and no 
    attention should be paid to the opinion of the patient’s relatives with 
    regard to putting him on or taking him off life-support, because that is not 
    their specialty. 

    Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas. 

    ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allah ibn Baaz… ‘Abd al-Razzaaq 
    ‘Afeefi 

    And Allah knows best.