In India euthanasia and suicide are forbidden. Passive euthanasia (quickening of the patient’s death by removing feeding tubes, etc) is permissible since 2018.
Since March 2018, passive euthanasia is legal in India under strict guidelines. Patients must consent through a living will, and must be either terminally ill or in a vegetative state.
At this moment, India does have 1 Right to Die Society: IM Euthanasia India.
On Tuesday January 24, the Hindustan Times reported that the Supreme Court of India revamped the “cumbersome” procedure impeding the execution of passive euthanasia, laying
On Thursday August 19, a 49-year-old woman from Bengaluru who last week approached the Delhi High Court to stop her friend from travelling to Europe allegedly to
A petition in the Supreme Court of India has restarted the debate on legality of active euthanasia or physician-assisted mercy killing. The petitioner pleaded that
DNAR guidelines will apply to situations when doctors feel revival of patients with incurable condition will be inappropriate, non beneficial, aggravate suffering and interrupt the
“IM Euthanasia India” announced their formation. The organisation will be dedicating their efforts to change the premises in the Indian legal system for a ‘Right
