sc directs board to review passive euthanasia for 31-year-old man
New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the constitution of a secondary medical board at AIIMS, Delhi, to examine whether life support and treatment may be withdrawn from a 31-year-old man who has remained in a vegetative state for over a decade, in what may become India's first judicially sanctioned case of passive euthanasia. The bench said the man, who suffers from 100% disability quadriplegia, is surviving in a condition so "pathetic" that he has now developed severe bedsores, an indicator of prolonged neglect and irreversible deterioration. P9...
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