Dignity In Dying

Leaders from every corner of the globe briefly united Thursday in homage to Queen Elizabeth II, after the world's longest-serving monarch died at her Scottish home at age 96.

Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, where his steadfastness and courage in the face of death threats made him elite even among baseball immortals.

Visuals of injured migrant labourers travelling in an open truck with tarpaulin-wrapped dead bodies in Uttar Pradesh has infuriated Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who called it an "inhumane" act that robbed both the living and the dead of dignity.

Leadership is about handling pressure - with dignity and grace without ceding an inch to an opponent in a crucial fight. For me, Rahul Gandhi came up aces in his reply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's despicable comment on his late father Rajiv Gandhi. At a rally yesterday, Modi said "Your father's life ended as Bhrashtachari No 1" (most corrupt)....

Just a few days after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgment by decriminalising homosexuality, Chief Justice of India (CJI), Dipak Misra said that each individual has the right to life as well as the right to live with dignity, but cases involving conflicting interest have to be dealt with in a balanced manner.

People have the right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark verdict that permits the removal of life support systems for the terminally ill or those who slip into incurable coma. The top court also allowed the "living will", which lets people decide against artificial life support. "When the sanctity of life is destroyed, ...

In a landmark verdict the Supreme Court has allowed 'living will' but with strict guidelines. The top court has said the guidelines will remain effective till a law is in place. A 'living will' is made by a person, in his normal state of mind, seeking voluntary euthanasia in case of terminal illness, if he or she reaches an irreversible vegetative ...

Although Japan has one of the world's fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding "living wills", let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.

Former US president Bill Clinton, who was in office when Nelson Mandela took power in South Africa, on Thursday mourned the death of a "champion for human dignity and freedom".

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has pledged her support to a campaign calling for the legalisation of assisted suicide

Leaders from every corner of the globe briefly united Thursday in homage to Queen Elizabeth II, after the world's longest-serving monarch died at her Scottish home at age 96.

Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, where his steadfastness and courage in the face of death threats made him elite even among baseball immortals.

Visuals of injured migrant labourers travelling in an open truck with tarpaulin-wrapped dead bodies in Uttar Pradesh has infuriated Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who called it an "inhumane" act that robbed both the living and the dead of dignity.

Leadership is about handling pressure - with dignity and grace without ceding an inch to an opponent in a crucial fight. For me, Rahul Gandhi came up aces in his reply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's despicable comment on his late father Rajiv Gandhi. At a rally yesterday, Modi said "Your father's life ended as Bhrashtachari No 1" (most corrupt)....

Just a few days after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgment by decriminalising homosexuality, Chief Justice of India (CJI), Dipak Misra said that each individual has the right to life as well as the right to live with dignity, but cases involving conflicting interest have to be dealt with in a balanced manner.

People have the right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark verdict that permits the removal of life support systems for the terminally ill or those who slip into incurable coma. The top court also allowed the "living will", which lets people decide against artificial life support. "When the sanctity of life is destroyed, ...

In a landmark verdict the Supreme Court has allowed 'living will' but with strict guidelines. The top court has said the guidelines will remain effective till a law is in place. A 'living will' is made by a person, in his normal state of mind, seeking voluntary euthanasia in case of terminal illness, if he or she reaches an irreversible vegetative ...

Although Japan has one of the world's fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding "living wills", let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.

Former US president Bill Clinton, who was in office when Nelson Mandela took power in South Africa, on Thursday mourned the death of a "champion for human dignity and freedom".

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has pledged her support to a campaign calling for the legalisation of assisted suicide