Flickering eyes, gulps: Heartbreaking video captures Harish Rana's family farewell
India Today
This moment comes days after the Supreme Court allowed Harish Rana to die with dignity – a historic first court-ordered case of passive euthanasia in India. The court acknowledged the medical opinion that Rana will never recover and that the tubes that feed him and keep him alive are only prolonging his pain.
An emotional video of Harish Rana, the 32-year-old who will face a medically monitored death in the coming weeks, has gone viral, which shows his family bidding him farewell, before he was moved to a palliative care unit at Delhi’s All India Institute Of Medical Sciences.
Harish is seen blinking his eyes and gulping in the video, the only movements he has been able to perform for the last 13 years after a fall left him with severe, and irreversible, brain damage.
The video also shows a Brahma Kumari sister caressing his forehead with a wistful smile while their stoic mother watches quietly from behind. "Sabko maaf karte hue, sabse maafi mangte hue, tum jao (Grant forgiveness, seek forgiveness, and leave)," says Brahma Kumari Lovely in the video.
Kumari Lovely is connected with 'Prabhu Milan Bhavan', a Brahma Kumari center in Ghaziabad. The Rana family has long been associated with the Brahma Kumari movement, a women-run spiritual organization founded in 1937 and headquartered in Mount Abu.
This moment comes days after the Supreme Court allowed Harish Rana to die with dignity – a historic first court-ordered case of passive euthanasia in India. The court acknowledged the medical opinion that Rana will never recover and that the tubes that feed him and keep him alive are only prolonging a pain that the 32-year-old is not even able to communicate.
Following the court’s order on March 11, Harish Rana was moved to a palliative care unit at Delhi’s All India Institute Of Medical Sciences where a medical board will formulate an end-of-life care plan.
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This moment comes days after the Supreme Court allowed Harish Rana to die with dignity – a historic first court-ordered case of passive euthanasia in India. The court acknowledged the medical opinion that Rana will never recover and that the tubes that feed him and keep him alive are only prolonging his pain.
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