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If in a life or death situation where starvation will be the cause of death and you are forced to have pork, is it permissible not to eat it and allow yourself to die?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Usually we deal with questions related to practical issues which people experience in their day to day life. Your question looks like very far from day to day life, nevertheless if you want the answer for knowledge, it is obligatory to save our life. Deliberate failure in saving life and causing death is a sinful act. It is not permissible to cause death to yourself even if the only food available to remain alive is pork, but no more than what make you survive.

'Wassalam.
Nowadays people are quoting a hadith according to which one who dies during a plague is considered to be a martyr. Is this hadith authentic?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

This narration المطعون شهيد is found in Sunni books of Hadeeth ( Riyadh al-Saliheen 1:1353 from Abu Huraira) but I did not find it in our authentic books of Hadeeth. It has been mentioned in few of our books of Fiqh but the meaning of مطعون is not a victim of plague but a stabbed person. مطعون can be from طاعون plague and can be from طعن which means stabbing. The meaning of the narration if it was authentic can be a victim of plague or a stabbed to death.

If it is an authentic, it does not mean a real martyr who should not be given Ghusl, but it means the reward which he gets because he was a victim.

Wassalam.
My older brother has low-functioning autism and has become extremely violent and is in a care home. I find myself wanting Allah to take him from this world to end the suffering. Is it allowed to wish him to die if it isn't with hateful or evil intentions?
Amina Inloes

I don't have anything to add, but I just wanted to say that I am sorry about your and his suffering and I pray that Allah makes it easier. 
Is it allowed in Islam to complete reading one Quran by multiple people? Is it permissible to divide the Quran into chapters among people in order to complete reading it for the benefit of a deceased person?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

Yes, it is allowed, and indeed a desirable act, where a circle of people agree on reciting specific parts of the holy Quran, for the reward of the whole khatm to be gifted to someone who has passed.

It is very much encouraged to do this, and hopefully others around you learn to do it as well.
With prayers for your success.