The parents, Ashok Rana, 62, and Nirmala Devi, 55, have struggled financially to care for their son, who suffered severe head injuries and ...

Fear should not come in way of celebrating life, feels the actress.

It turns out that authorities and those keen on registering a living will are both struggling in the absence of standard procedures at the ...

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra today said passive euthanasia and advance living will ar...

The ruling stems from a petition filed by an NGO 'Common Cause', who had approached the court seeking a direction for recognition of 'livin...

The SC had said such a request would be vetted by a board of medical experts and thereafter the HC would go through the report before grant...

Passive euthanasia is a condition where there is withdrawal of medical treatment with the deliberate intention to hasten the death of a ter...

There were demands that a separate national court of appeal be established with benches in four corners of country to deal with more mundan...

The law, too, must play its part by upholding the right of doctors to remove unnecessary life-prolonging interventions that prevent dying w...

Presenlty, doctors in India are not allowed under the Hippocratic Oath to switch off life support systems except in medical cases involving...

The play, which will be staged in September is based on journalist Pinki Virani's book about the Indian nurse.

The nurses of the KEM hospital at Parel in Mumbai, who took care of her for long, were keen to perform the last rites of Aruna instead of h...

The 66-year-old was battling a serious bout of pneumonia and was on ventilator support, King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital sources said.

"It is dismaying that the euthanasia debate has been reduced to the irrelevant question of whether or not the Indian citizen has the right ...

In circumstances, where the individual affected is not in full control of information regarding his or her illness, legalising euthanasia i...

The contention is over the concept of "living will", which means a person can will to be assisted in dying if ever struck with a terminal i...

The Centre has rejected the Law Commission's recommendation to allow terminally ill patients to choose death to end their suffering, attorn...