Euthanasia Plea

Describing the case as a "very hard one", the Supreme Court sought the Centre's response on Tuesday on a plea of a couple whose 30-year-old son has been lying in a vegetative state in a hospital since 2013 after suffering head injuries.

A Frenchman who is suffering from an incurable condition said Friday he plans to livestream his death on social media as he refuses to take food, drink or medicine after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia.

After fighting the odds for a decade to treat his son, who is in persistent vegetative state since his birth in 2008, a man has approached the Madras High Court, seeking permission to resort to passive euthanasia for the nine-year-old.

"I remember when I had made Guzaarish, there was plenty of hue and cry over my plea to allow the irreversibly ailing to end their lives," said Bhansali

A five-judge Constitution bench will decide whether a "living will" or voluntary euthanasia can be allowed if a person is terminally ill or may go into a vegetative state with no hope of recovery.

A local court in New Delhi received an application purportedly written by a triple murder accused pleading for euthanasia or mercy killing on the ground that he had been suffering from cancer, but the undertrial has disowned the plea.

She shares her name with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. Fortunately, the cries for help of this 'Amma' in Erode district for the promise of a better tomorrow of her special child are being heard.

In a heart-rending plea to authorities, a middle-aged woman has sought euthanasia for her 14-year-old cerebral palsy-affected daughter.

There is a ray of hope for 21-year-old Alka Tiwari who has been battling blood cancer. A Rajya Sabha MP Ganga Charan has donated Rs 20 lakh rupees for her bone marrow transplant after NDTV showed how the poor girl's family could not afford her treatment.

In Kanpur, a 21-year-old girl, suffering from blood cancer for the past nine years, has moved court with a euthanasia plea. She took this decision as she is running out of funds to undergo weekly blood transfusions.

Aruna Shanbaug has not walked or spoken a word in 37 years. Since she was raped by a sweeper at her hospital in 1973, she has not left the hospital where she was once a bright capable nurse. Nurses change her diapers, feed her and calm her when she gets restless - usually if there are more than a few people in her room at Mumbai's King Edward Memor...

The Supreme Court  today rejected Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea. It had been filed by writer Pinki Virani. Virani in her plea had said that Shanbaug should no longer be fed because keeping her alive violates her right to live with dignity. Her argument is that Aruna can't speak, hear or even think for herself. The writer has even written...

Describing the case as a "very hard one", the Supreme Court sought the Centre's response on Tuesday on a plea of a couple whose 30-year-old son has been lying in a vegetative state in a hospital since 2013 after suffering head injuries.

A Frenchman who is suffering from an incurable condition said Friday he plans to livestream his death on social media as he refuses to take food, drink or medicine after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia.

After fighting the odds for a decade to treat his son, who is in persistent vegetative state since his birth in 2008, a man has approached the Madras High Court, seeking permission to resort to passive euthanasia for the nine-year-old.

"I remember when I had made Guzaarish, there was plenty of hue and cry over my plea to allow the irreversibly ailing to end their lives," said Bhansali

A five-judge Constitution bench will decide whether a "living will" or voluntary euthanasia can be allowed if a person is terminally ill or may go into a vegetative state with no hope of recovery.

A local court in New Delhi received an application purportedly written by a triple murder accused pleading for euthanasia or mercy killing on the ground that he had been suffering from cancer, but the undertrial has disowned the plea.

She shares her name with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. Fortunately, the cries for help of this 'Amma' in Erode district for the promise of a better tomorrow of her special child are being heard.

In a heart-rending plea to authorities, a middle-aged woman has sought euthanasia for her 14-year-old cerebral palsy-affected daughter.

There is a ray of hope for 21-year-old Alka Tiwari who has been battling blood cancer. A Rajya Sabha MP Ganga Charan has donated Rs 20 lakh rupees for her bone marrow transplant after NDTV showed how the poor girl's family could not afford her treatment.

In Kanpur, a 21-year-old girl, suffering from blood cancer for the past nine years, has moved court with a euthanasia plea. She took this decision as she is running out of funds to undergo weekly blood transfusions.

Aruna Shanbaug has not walked or spoken a word in 37 years. Since she was raped by a sweeper at her hospital in 1973, she has not left the hospital where she was once a bright capable nurse. Nurses change her diapers, feed her and calm her when she gets restless - usually if there are more than a few people in her room at Mumbai's King Edward Memor...

The Supreme Court  today rejected Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea. It had been filed by writer Pinki Virani. Virani in her plea had said that Shanbaug should no longer be fed because keeping her alive violates her right to live with dignity. Her argument is that Aruna can't speak, hear or even think for herself. The writer has even written...