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Passive Euthanasia legalised by Supreme Court: What is living will and right to die with dignity?
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe Supreme Court on Friday recognised a person'e right to die with dignity while giving sanction to passive euthanasia and living will.
Living will makes sense when coupled with medical power of attorney, independent third-party monitoring
Ajay Kumar • 7 years agoA living will though will permit a person to determine in advance, what should be the course of treatment that doctors should undertake in case they reach a stage where prolonged treatment/life support would result in suffering.
How to have a decent death: Living wills versus a DND for dying with dignity
Pinki Virani • 7 years agoShould India have Living Wills? Passive euthanasia's 'Next Friend' Pinki Virani weighs in with this exclusive column for Firstpost
Supreme Court likely to pronounce judgment on petition seeking recognition of 'living will' for passive euthanasia today
• 7 years agoThe Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its judgement on a petition seeking recognition of 'living will' made by terminally-ill patients for passive euthanasia.
What is living will? Supreme Court says 'complex concept', to decide whether people can demand passive euthanasia
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe government expressed its opposition to the concept of living will as it told the Supreme Court that a living will could be misused.
Euthanasia debate: 'Living will' to die has potential for misuse, not viable as public policy, Centre tells SC
• 7 years agoThe government opposed granting recognition to "living will" in cases of passive euthanasia, telling Supreme Court that it could be misused
Right to die? Here's what you need to know about the euthanasia debate
Fp Staff • 9 years agoThe Union government has now come up with a draft bill on passive euthanasia and has invited comments on it from people till 19 June.
KEM hospital name Room 4 after Aruna Shanbaug on her birth anniversary
Fp Archives • 10 years agoNurses at KEM hospital on Monday remembered their colleague Aruna Shanbaug, who passed away three weeks ago, on her birth anniversary with the hospital
Village panchayat may exile Valmiki: Sorry, hounding her rapist isn't justice for Aruna Shanbaug
Roy • 10 years agoWhen Aruna Shanbaug died after lying in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital for over four decades, many naturally wondered whatever happened to the man who sexually assaulted her.
Mumbai remembers Aruna Shanbaug on birth anniversary with new biography, programme at KEM
Fp Archives • 10 years agoNurses of the KEM Hospital on Monday fondly remembered their colleague Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, who remained in coma for 42 years after sexual assault when she was 25 and died in Mumbai on 18 May.