Life Support
On the question of removing life support in medical cases where physiological intervention prolongs life in disabling and otherwise fatal illnesses our Teachings indicate that God, the Giver of life, can alone dispose of it as He deems best, and nothing has been found in the Sacred Text on these matters specifically. Until such time as the Universal House of Justice considers legislation on euthanasia, decisions in the matters to which you refer must be left to the consciences of those responsible, within the limits prescribed by the law of the land.
- Universal House of Justice, Reproduction and other Biological Subjects, 2000
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Idal 19 Kamal 183 B.E.
Also, after quoting the above statement of the Guardian, the following comment was made in another letter: In view of this, the House of Justice has stated that it would not be proper for a Bahá’í to donate semen to a hospital for the artificial insemination of a woman other than his wife.
Universal House of Justice – Lights of Guidance, p. 288