It's perfectly legal to fail to render certain kinds of medical assistance in some situations, such as when a patient stops breathing and they are wearing a DNR medical alert bracelet, or they're in the hospital and their heart stops and they are DNR/NO CODE. There is hospice care, when patients or their decision makers decide that further medical treatment is futile or will do more harm than good, and in some circumstances, doctors can withdraw care against a patient's or family's wishes, if it's futile and will just prolong suffering.
And in the event of a "mass casualty" event, such as a battle to save the Earth from alien invaders, first responders have a protocol in which they concentrate their efforts on those who can be saved. Those who are already dead or who will obviously die before they can get to a hospital will be left to die, and that is right, necessary, and legal, because that's the way you save the most injured people. And Tony was one of the ones would obviously die before he'd get to a hospital, so they did the right thing by getting his wife and letting him say goodbye.
Although come to think of it, Strange did NOT do the right thing - he should have hauled out of there and used his powers to magick all the injured to every trauma center in the world. He couldn't operate any more, but could still transport the injured like a boss.
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