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, should we not allow them to cross
the door and meet death with dignity? For some, even their death could be a
moment of celebration," said a group of five judges including Chief
Justice Dipak Misra.
Here are the latest developments in this story:
1.
The "living
will" authorises patients to give explicit instructions in advance about
the medical treatment to be administered when they are terminally ill or no
longer able to express informed consent.
2. A person suffering from terminal illness has
the right to refuse medical treatment to avoid "protracted physical
suffering", said the judgement peppered with quotes of writers and
philosophers.
RIGHT TO LIFE WITH DIGNITY ALSO INCLUDES RIGHT TO DIE
WITH DIGNITY:- TIME TO AMEND ARTICLE 21 OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND LAW OF
EUTHENESIA
Constitution Art. 21. Right to life
is a natural right and
right to die is not a natural right
and no one has a right to
finish their life in unnatural way Even
when a petition was filed for Euthanasia, In Aruna
Ramchandra Shanbaug versus Union of
India (2011)4 SCC 454, Supreme Court in its judgment declared that only Passive
Euthanasia is legal in India; means when a person is on ventilation in that
case only, patient can be removed from the ventilation.
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE EUTHENESIA
The Honorable Supreme Court of India
in, Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug vs. Union of India had made a clear distinction
between Active and Passive Euthanasia. In Active euthanasia something is done
to end the life of patient e.g. injecting the patient with a lethal substance e.g.
Sodium Pentothal which causes the person to go in deep sleep in a few seconds
and the person dies painlessly in sleep, thus it amounts to killing a person by
a positive act in order to end suffering of a person in aastly, it‟s high
time to amend
Article 21 of
Indian
Constitution and to include Right to die with
dignity in it
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