Agra Euthanasia

For more than a year, Sumer Singh, a labourer from Agra has been tending to his sick teenage daughter. The 16-year-old girl suffers from aplastic anaemia, a rare condition in which the body stops producing a sufficient amount of new blood cells.

Kuber, the eldest son of a sweet shop owner in Agra, is getting ready to go to the mosque to offer his prayers on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat. But six of his brothers and sisters cannot accompany him because of a rare neurological disorder called Canavan that has left them weaker and more paralysed with each passing year.

A 42-year-old man in Agra has decided to write to President Pranab Mukherjee, pleading euthanasia or mercy killing for six of his eight children who suffer from a rare neurological disease called Canavan, wherein the growth of children is developmentally delayed and over time the patient suffers seizures and becomes paralysed.

For more than a year, Sumer Singh, a labourer from Agra has been tending to his sick teenage daughter. The 16-year-old girl suffers from aplastic anaemia, a rare condition in which the body stops producing a sufficient amount of new blood cells.

Kuber, the eldest son of a sweet shop owner in Agra, is getting ready to go to the mosque to offer his prayers on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat. But six of his brothers and sisters cannot accompany him because of a rare neurological disorder called Canavan that has left them weaker and more paralysed with each passing year.

A 42-year-old man in Agra has decided to write to President Pranab Mukherjee, pleading euthanasia or mercy killing for six of his eight children who suffer from a rare neurological disease called Canavan, wherein the growth of children is developmentally delayed and over time the patient suffers seizures and becomes paralysed.