India’s Supreme Court allows first-ever passive euthanasia death
Al Jazeera
Withdrawal of life support granted to family of 32-year-old man who has been in vegetative state for more than 12 years.
India’s Supreme Court has allowed the country’s first case of passive euthanasia – withdrawal of artificial life support – for a 32-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state for more than 12 years.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan on Wednesday permitted the withdrawal of life support to Harish Rana, a resident of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, who suffered severe head injuries after falling from a building in 2013.
“The patient’s next of kin and the medical boards have reached the opinion that CAN [clinically administered nutrition] administration should be discontinued,” the Press Trust of India news agency quoted the Supreme Court bench as saying.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Rana’s father, seeking permission to withdraw life-sustaining treatment for his son. The family said Rana was being kept artificially alive.
The court in its ruling said Rana exhibited “no meaningful interaction” and had been dependent on others for “all activities of self-care”.
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