London: A controversial mobile euthanasia programme has been launched in the Netherlands, sending specialised teams door-to-door to help patients end their lives, The Independent reported. The project, which has provoked sharp criticism from doctors, is the brainchild of the Dutch largely donor-funded pro-mercy killing group Right to Die NL. It follows the government's 2002 decision to legalise euthanasia, making the Netherlands the first country in the world to do so....
09:12 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Hyderabad: Unable to take care of him due to poverty, a 64-year-old widow in Andhra Pradesh has sought euthanasia for her son, a 36-year-old graduate in aeronautical science who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years. C Janardhan, the son of agricultural labourers workers, had got a job offer from abroad and was preparing to go to Australia in 1997 when he was left an invalid in a...
06:44 PM, Feb 07, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The animals in the city zoo are still living under the threat of virus infection. Chances are high for the spread of the canine distemper virus, which claimed the lives of four jackals in the city zoo and affected the remaining four. Realising the seriousness of situation, the zoo authorities approached the Forest Department for its approval for euthanasia. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R Raja Raja Varma confirmed...
08:54 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday decided to fund the cancer treatment of terminally ill patient Alka Tiwari. An ambulance was dispatched to bring her from Lucknow to Delhi's AIIMS hospital. On Tuesday a local court issued a notice to the State Government and the Centre. The 21-year old had filed a civil suit asking the government to either pay for her treatment or give her the right to die....
04:34 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: The issue of euthanasia or the right to die is back in focus in Kanpur with a local court issuing notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and the Centre asking for monetary help for a cancer patient. A civil suit was filed by Alka Tiwari, a 21-year-old cancer patient, asking the government to either fund her treatment or else allow euthanasia. Alka's brother says he spoke to Union...
09:38 AM, Oct 04, 2011
This week on 30 Minutes, watch people who do not wish to live more and thus, ask for mercy killing for themselves. ...
06:53 PM, Mar 13, 2011
New Delhi: In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed "passive euthanasia" of withdrawing life support to patients in permanently vegetative state(PVS) but rejected outright active euthanasia of ending life through administration of lethal substances. Refusing mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug, lying in a vegetative state for 37 years in a Mumbai hospital, a two-judge bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, laid a set of...
07:00 AM, Mar 08, 2011
Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, should Indian citizens have the right to die. ...
11:21 PM, Mar 07, 2011
On talking point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks that do we need a law on euthanasia. ...
10:28 PM, Mar 07, 2011
On talking point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks that do we need a law on euthanasia. ...
10:28 PM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition to allow the mercy killing of former Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug. Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra dismissed the petition filed on behalf of Shanbaug and observed that passive euthanasia is permissible under supervision of law in exceptional circumstances but active euthanasia is not permitted under the law. What are active and passive euthanasia and what are the accepted...
07:03 PM, Mar 07, 2011
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO. 115 OF 2009 Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug .. Petitioner -versus- Union of India and others .. Respondents JUDGMENT Markandey Katju, J. "Marte hain aarzoo mein marne ki, Maut aati hai par nahin aati" - Mirza Ghalib 1. Heard Mr. Shekhar Naphade, learned senior counsel for the petitioner, learned Attorney General for India for the Union of India Mr....
04:38 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Pinki Virani's lawyer Shubhangi Tulli said the Supreme Court praised Pinki for putting Aruna Shanbaug's case rightly. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 07, 2011
A retired employee of KEM Hospital's ward number four, Tidi Makwana has served Aruna Shanbaug for 25 years. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 07, 2011
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