Is it permissible for a woman suffering from a terminal illness, who uses morphine to relieve the pain resulting from her lungs being filled with cancer, with a high risk of suffocation if she stops using it, to continue this treatment until her death, and is the use of morphine in this case considered suicide?
It is permissible to use morphine to relieve pain when necessary, unless another painkiller is available, provided that its use does not result in a greater or equal harm, such as addiction. Narcotic substances are forbidden except for the purpose of essential medical treatment and in the dosages prescribed by doctors.
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