passive euthanasia

Harish Rana case shows, right to die with dignity cannot just be an abstract constitutional notion

March 28, 2026 1:24 pm

The impact of the Supreme Court verdict should be felt at the hospital bed, to protracted suffering, to the silent ordeal of families having to make difficult choices

Harish Rana case: Right to life includes the right to die with dignity

March 27, 2026 5:37 pm

As the Supreme Court reaffirms the right to withdraw life support, the lack of a legislative framework continues to prolong the suffering of patients and their kin

Harish Rana, first to die by passive euthanasia, is consigned to flames

March 26, 2026 3:48 am

Harish Rana, first in country to get passive euthanasia nod, dies

March 25, 2026 4:29 am

Harish, 31, had been in a coma since 2013, when he fell from a fourth-floor balcony in Chandigarh while he was aBTech student. For years, he remained in a permanent vegetative state, sustained by artificial nutrition through a feeding tube and, at times, oxygen support.

Supreme Court's Euthanasia judgment shows dignity cannot be measured solely in heartbeats

March 12, 2026 12:09 pm

For decades, legal systems treated life as an absolute value whose preservation justified almost any intervention. But dignity, the Court recognised, in Harish Rana’s case and several others, cannot be reduced to the mere continuation of physiological processes

SC allows passive euthanasia, Centre needs to take its cue

March 12, 2026 12:21 am

The judiciary has been cautious about euthanasia. However, it has increasingly come around to the view that forcing patients to remain in an irreversible vegetative state may undermine human dignity

Knowledge Nugget: Euthanasia and Living Will — What UPSC aspirants must know

December 20, 2025 6:50 pm

UPSC current affairs: The Supreme Court said it would decide on Harish Rana’s father’s plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia after meeting the family. What is euthanasia, and how have the Court’s guidelines on passive and active euthanasia evolved in India?

As SC takes up Harish Rana case again, a look at the law on passive euthanasia

December 12, 2025 2:54 pm

In 2018, a five-judge constitution bench of the SC recognised passive euthanasia and laid down conditions and safeguards regarding the execution of such a living will. In January 2023, the court modified the order to make it less stringent.

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?