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End of life, dignify by law and practiceIndia's Supreme Court has allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for Harish Rana. This decision reinforces a structured legal ...- Dignity for all when passing onRecent developments, including a living will clinic launch in Mumbai and Britain's Parliament vote, signal a shift towards end-of-life choi...
- Justice Chandrachud: All about the 50th Chief Justice of India, DYC's life, law, and legacyJustice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, known for his progressive judgments on issues like privacy and LGBTQ+ rights, recently retired as ...
- Parents approach Supreme Court requesting euthanasia for 30-year-old son; Top court asks Centre to find an alternativeThe parents, Ashok Rana, 62, and Nirmala Devi, 55, have struggled financially to care for their son, who suffered severe head injuries and ...
- Why registering a ‘living will’ is an arduous task despite SC guidelinesIt turns out that authorities and those keen on registering a living will are both struggling in the absence of standard procedures at the ...
- Supreme Court verdict on euthanasia could be misused, says KCBCA five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra today said passive euthanasia and advance living will ar...
- Landmark ruling: Supreme Court says passive euthanasia is permissibleThe ruling stems from a petition filed by an NGO 'Common Cause', who had approached the court seeking a direction for recognition of 'livin...
- The Aruna Shanbaug case which changed euthanasia laws in India
- After passive euthanasia, SC will now examine ‘living will'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...
- Living will to die can be misused, not feasible: Government to Supreme CourtPassive euthanasia is a condition where there is withdrawal of medical treatment with the deliberate intention to hasten the death of a ter...
- SC to examine if it can convert itself to US-style Supreme CourtThere were demands that a separate national court of appeal be established with benches in four corners of country to deal with more mundan...
- Poke Me: Supreme Court wants India to have a clear stand on euthanasia. Here are two viewsThe law, too, must play its part by upholding the right of doctors to remove unnecessary life-prolonging interventions that prevent dying w...
- Supreme Court seeks Modi government's views on right to diePresenlty, doctors in India are not allowed under the Hippocratic Oath to switch off life support systems except in medical cases involving...
- Lushin Dubey's next play deals with Aruna Shanbaug rape caseThe play, which will be staged in September is based on journalist Pinki Virani's book about the Indian nurse.
- Fellow nurses, kin bid adieu to Aruna ShanbaugThe 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...
- World's oldest comatose patient Aruna Shanbaug deadThe 66-year-old was battling a serious bout of pneumonia and was on ventilator support, King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital sources said.
- It is cruel to deny patients the right to euthanasia"It is dismaying that the euthanasia debate has been reduced to the irrelevant question of whether or not the Indian citizen has the right ...
- Poke Me: Call for euthanasia premature in IndiaIn circumstances, where the individual affected is not in full control of information regarding his or her illness, legalising euthanasia i...
- Decriminalising suicide is not an option, extending scope of law may help ease miseryThe 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...
- Govt against mercy killing, AG tells SCThe Centre has rejected the Law Commission's recommendation to allow terminally ill patients to choose death to end their suffering, attorn...
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