Active Euthanasia

Passive euthanasia gets SC nod: Medical board would create hurdles, not smoothen path to peaceful demise

For a country that swears by Mahatma Gandhi, it is sad that it has taken almost two decades for India to finally decide that both passive euthanasia and the living will are now legal.

Supreme Court allows passive euthanasia: How Aruna Shanbaug case changed right to die with dignity law

In a landmark judgement, Supreme Court recognised that a terminally-ill patient can write a 'living will' that permits doctors to withdraw life support

Passive Euthanasia legalised by Supreme Court: What is living will and right to die with dignity?

The Supreme Court on Friday recognised a person'e right to die with dignity while giving sanction to passive euthanasia and living will.

How to have a decent death: Living wills versus a DND for dying with dignity

Should India have Living Wills? Passive euthanasia's 'Next Friend' Pinki Virani weighs in with this exclusive column for Firstpost

Mumbai couple appeals President of India for 'active euthanasia': Why the Lavates want a 'mercy death'

The couple has been in the news in the past few weeks for a letter they have addressed to the President of India with an appeal for ‘active euthanasia’. The Lavates are registered as organ donors, and reason that it’s better they die while their organs are still functioning perfectly, instead of later, from an ailment or disease. The couple’s utilitarian view of life includes leaving behind their bodies for medical research and their property to the government. They also believe it’s unfair that they be made to live up to a point where they contract a disease or infection, and are forced to spend money on treatment, before finally dying.

What is living will? Supreme Court says 'complex concept', to decide whether people can demand passive euthanasia

The government expressed its opposition to the concept of living will as it told the Supreme Court that a living will could be misused.