42 years in vegetative state: Aruna Shanbaug puts spotlight on euthanasia
Netherlands: In April 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. Euthanasia is regulated by the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide law. It states that euthanasia and physician-assisted.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 11.03.11
The Supreme Courts verdict on the plea to allow mercy killing in the Aruna Shanbaug case revives the debate on euthanasia, and how it differs from suicide. The court, while ruling that the 63-year-old woman, in a vegetative state since being sexually assaulted and choked by a hospital ward boy 37 years ago, be allowed to live because of Mumbais KEM Hospital staffs love for her, expressed approval for passive euthanasia. This entails withdrawing life-support��.
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EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 15.07.10
As for the illegal mining scam, just three weeks ago, the Lokayukta of Karnataka, N Santosh Hegde, had put the spotlight on the state governments failure to curb mining-linked corruption, irrespective of parties in power. In fact, rampant illegal mining is a countrywide.. The case of Aruna Shanbag ��� who has been living in a vegetative state for 37 years ��� is an example of how issues surrounding euthanasia remain unresolved. Shanbag, a nurse at Mumbais King��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.03.11
. ready for a meaningful debate on euthanasia ? But let us first acquaint ourselves with a few basic facts pertaining to Aruna Shanbaug and the demand that she be put to death, which set all of this in motion.. This is not yet the practice here, but the recent Supreme Court judgment has allowed for a patient in a persistent vegetative state to be taken off a lifesupporting ventilator, provided certain stipulated conditions are met. Ironically, this has placed members of the��.