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Passive Euthanasia updates: Mumbai couple who wanted assisted suicide from President 'not satisfied' with SC verdict
Fp Staff •The Supreme Court has recognised the Right to Die as a facet of Article 21, while giving sanction to passive Euthanasia and living will/advance directive.
Supreme Court allows passive euthanasia: How Aruna Shanbaug case changed right to die with dignity law
Fp Staff •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?
Fp Staff •The 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 •A 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.
Euthanasia debate: Precedents prove that Indians need the right to die with dignity
Rnb •Despite the euthanasia debate, fact is that historically, India is no stranger to the right to die; in fact, opting to die is an act of honour.
Supreme Court legalises passive euthanasia: Dignity in death is a facet of Right to Live, rules five-judge bench
Fp Staff •In a landmark ruling, Supreme Court recognised the right to die with dignity and legalised passive euthanasia on Friday. A Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Kumar Misra, Justice AK Sikri, Justice AM Khanwilkar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan, passed the verdict on the plea to allow "living will" that will authorise the withdrawal of all life support systems if in the opinion of the doctors he has reached an irreversible stage of terminal illness.
Centre fair in opposing living will, family's right should be paramount in deciding 'passive euthanasia'
Muralidharan •The moot question is if indeed a person who is in a permanent vegetable state has the right to die with dignity given the fact that he is in no position to feel pleasure or pain leave alone cherish the nebulous and lofty notion of dignity.
What is living will? Supreme Court says 'complex concept', to decide whether people can demand passive euthanasia
Fp Staff •The government expressed its opposition to the concept of living will as it told the Supreme Court that a living will could be misused.
Welcome if SC gives legal clarity on euthanasia: Pinki Virani
Pallavi •Firstpost spoke to social activist and award-winning author Pinki Virani, whose petition to grant euthansia to her friend Aruna Shanbaug led to the 2011 Supreme Court judgment on euthanasia