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  Harish Rana, first person in India to be allowed passive euthanasia, dies at AIIMS Delhi

  India | March 24, 2026 17:12 IST

  Harish Rana had been in a vegetative state for the past 13 years after falling off a fourth floor balcony at Panjab University, where he was pursuing engineering.

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  What are passive euthanasia and active euthanasia? Explained after the SC's Harish Rana verdict

  Health | March 11, 2026 11:33 IST

  The Supreme Court has allowed passive euthanasia for Ghaziabad resident Harish Rana, who has been unconscious for nearly 13 years after a severe accident. The decision has renewed discussion around euthanasia laws in India. Here is a simple explainer on what passive and active euthanasia mean.

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  CJI Justice DY Chandrachud takes up THIS case on his last working day | Details inside

  India | November 12, 2024 16:54 IST

  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.

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  Over 4 years after landmark judgement on 'Living Will' SC to modify 'cumbersome' guidelines

  India | January 17, 2023 19:41 IST

  The apex court's order notwithstanding, people wanting to get a "living will" registered have been facing problems due to cumbersome guidelines.

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  Woman moves Delhi HC to stop friend’s euthanasia trip to Switzerland

  India | August 12, 2022 17:13 IST

  Man seeks euthanasia: The man suffers from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is a complex, debilitating, long-term neuroinflammatory disease.

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  UP cop with cardiac problems seeks permission to end life

  India | October 17, 2019 11:39 IST

  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.

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  Mom seeks euthanasia, son writes book to give new lease of life

  India | September 19, 2019 16:14 IST

  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".

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  UP woman, daughter write to President Ram Nath Kovind for passive euthanasia

  India | March 13, 2018 12:52 IST

  The mother and her daughter, suffering from muscular dystrophy, are asking for financial help for their treatment or permission to end their lives.

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  As SC legalises passive euthanasia, India joins league of select nations

  India | March 09, 2018 23:14 IST

  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".

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  SC quotes intellectuals in historic verdict on euthanasia

  India | March 09, 2018 23:10 IST

  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.

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  When I made Guzaarish on euthanasia, there was hue and cry, says filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  Celebrities | March 09, 2018 20:48 IST

  2010 film Guzaarish narrated the story of a quadriplegic hero's (Hrithik Roshan) plea for death.

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  Pune doctor suffering from cancer pleads for euthanasia

  India | June 14, 2017 18:35 IST

  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.

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  Govt issues draft on passive euthanasia inviting suggestions on legalisation of law

  India | May 16, 2016 11:21 IST

  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

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  SC asks Centre to clear its stand on euthanasia

  India | January 16, 2016 12:22 IST

  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

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  Agra parents seek euthanasia for their 6 children

  India | June 01, 2015 16:50 IST

  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

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  Passive euthanasia not enough, say activists

  India | May 19, 2015 9:53 IST

  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

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  Even in her coma, Aruna Shanbaug triggered changes in euthanasia law

  India | May 19, 2015 8:12 IST

  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

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  Know Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who was in coma for 42 years after rape

  India | May 18, 2015 12:28 IST

  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

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  Legalising euthanasia be left for Parliament to debate and decide: Centre

  India | July 15, 2014 20:20 IST

  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

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  Government cautious on euthanasia issue, unlikely to make law

  India | June 12, 2012 15:10 IST

  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