India’s 50th Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, known also for his many pithy statements, leaves an imprint all his own on the annals of legal history. Justice Sanjiv Khanna replaced him on Monday.
The apex court's order notwithstanding, people wanting to get a "living will" registered have been facing problems due to cumbersome guidelines.
Man seeks euthanasia: The man suffers from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is a complex, debilitating, long-term neuroinflammatory disease.
The constable, Mahavir Singh, is a native of Etawah district, and has been suffering from cardiac problems for the last three years. He has even had a mild heart attack.
With an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. In Guy’s words, she is a "very powerful woman who takes her own path in life and woe betide anyone who gets in her way".
The mother and her daughter, suffering from muscular dystrophy, are asking for financial help for their treatment or permission to end their lives.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "euthanasia" as "the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma".
The SC referred to Indian philosophers like Swami Vivekananda and Charvaka as well as ancient Greek thinkers like Epicurus, Plato and Hippocrates while dealing with the issue.
2010 film Guzaarish narrated the story of a quadriplegic hero's (Hrithik Roshan) plea for death.
The family has approached a lawyer to finalise a petition on euthanasia to be submitted before the Bombay High Court. "We hold the health department responsible for pushing us to take this decision," Sangeeta says.
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has come up with a draft bill inviting suggestions for legalisation of passive euthanasia which means withdrawing medical treatment with deliberate intention of causing patient's death. The Ministry is
New Delhi: The Supreme court has asked government to make its stand clear on the issue of euthanasia.A five-judge Constitution Bench led by Justice Anil R Dave asked whether a terminally ill person, medically diagnosed
Agra: A man from Agra has written a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking his permission for euthanasia for his 6 out of 8 children aged between 8 to 18 years.42-year-old Mohammed Nazir, father of
New Delhi: The death on Monday of Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse who lived in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital for 42 long years, has renewed the debate on euthanasia, with some demanding that
Mumbai: One moment of murderous lust by a hospital contract sweeper consigned a young woman looking forward to her impending marriage to over four decades of a vegetative half-life.But Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug's plight attracted attentive
After being in a state of coma, Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug today took her last breath in the same hospital she worked in.Aruna Shanbaug was a nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. She
New Delhi: The Centre today opposed in the Supreme Court the plea for legalising passive euthanasia by allowing a person in vegetative condition to die by withdrawing life-support systems, saying such issues should be debated
New Delhi, June 12: Treading cautiously on the sensitive issue, the government is unlikely to make a law on euthanasia even a year after the Supreme Court allowed the High Courts to take a call
New Delhi, Mar 7: With the Supreme Court allowing "passive" euthanasia under "exceptional circumstances", India today joined a handful of countries which have legalised mercy killing in some form or other."Passive euthanasia" is usually defined
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