They had names. Ladan and Laleh Bijani. Laleh means "fragile flower".

All the stories I've seen about this emphasise that the doctors involved warned that the chances were at best 50/50, and advised against it. But they decided for themselves to take the risk, and they had the right to do so, and good reason to do so.

The hope of freedom is something worth risking dying for sometimes. That's called heroism.

The criticism of doctors for playing God is of where they are making the decisions where they have no right to do so. Gven that there was a fiughtin cahnce of survival, to refuse the clear wish of Ladan and Laleh to take that chance would have been doing exactly that, "making the decisions where they have no right to do so"