Top court reserves verdict on nod for passive euthanasia
New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on a plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia of a 31-year-old man who has remained in a permanent vegetative state for more than a decade, even as the court openly grappled with the moral limits of judicial decision-making in matters of life and death.
"We decide matters every day, but these issues are delicate. We are also mortals. Who are we to decide who lives or dies? Let us see," remarked a bench of justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan after hearing extensive submissions from the family of Harish Rana and the Union government.
The case, if allowed, could result in India's first instance of judicially sanctioned passive euthanasia, implementing the prin...
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