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Knowledge Nugget of the day: Euthanasia
November 05, 2024 11:56 am
The recent draft issued by the Union Health Ministry has closed the regulatory gap on passive euthanasia — Here’s all that you must know about Euthanasia and Living will.
Experts Explain: The right to die with dignity — SC rulings and what the law says in India
October 26, 2024 1:35 pm
What are the laws on withholding and withdrawing life support in terminally ill patients? Does this mean giving up on the patient, and are doctors expected to decide whether someone lives or dies?
Explained: The law and the ground realities of passive euthanasia in India
September 08, 2024 1:13 pm
In 2011, the Supreme Court for the first time recognised the legality of passive euthanasia in the case of Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v Union of India.
Keeping their child alive: As SC turns down family’s euthanasia plea, how the law has changed everyone’s life
September 09, 2024 1:42 pm
For 11 years, Harish Rana has been lying still on a bed — the only sign of life an occasional cough. With the Supreme Court turning down the family’s plea for passive euthanasia for Harish, Vidheesha Kuntamalla visits their home to find how the law around death has changed everyone’s life
How to ensure dignity for the terminally-ill
August 23, 2024 2:02 pm
It is high time there is legal clarity on the difference between euthanasia and the withdrawal of futile life-sustaining interventions
Express News Quiz: Dinosaurs, Hindenburg, and other disasters
January 27, 2023 6:25 am
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What is a living will, and the new Supreme Court order for simplifying passive euthanasia procedure?
January 27, 2023 6:50 am
SC has relaxed the guidelines for ‘advance medical directive’ that it issued in its 2018 judgment by which it had legalised passive euthanasia under certain circumstances. There is a long legal history to the matter.
Chandigarh: Retired prof couple execute living will, say ‘want to die with dignity’
December 21, 2019 7:08 am
Asked if he was suffering from any illness, Jauhar said, "I am fighting fit and an active academic person, but I am doing it as my right to die with dignity. It is a collective decision. Accordingly, we came here and recorded our submission in the court today. "
Person in persistent vegetative state shouldn't be made experimental object: Ex-CJI Misra
December 17, 2018 8:57 pm
Justice (retd) Misra said if a person cannot die with dignity, it was akin to affecting his or her identity.
Dignity, but for whom?
April 06, 2018 12:04 am
Verdict on living wills does not take into account socioeconomic realities.
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