Sold home, 12 years of care: Family's fight for Harish Rana's right to die
India Today
Ashok Rana and his wife, Nirmala Rana, told the Supreme Court that euthanasia would restore his dignity after years of irreversible suffering due to a head injury.
The family of the 32-year-old Ghaziabad man, who has been comatose for more than 12 years, in their plea to the Supreme Court, had said that allowing withdrawal of artificial life support would restore his dignity after years of irreversible suffering.
The top court allowed passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, who has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2013 after suffering severe head injuries from a fall from the fourth floor of his paying guest accommodation on August 20 that year.
Shortly after the Supreme Court pronounced its judgment, a crowd – consisting mainly of journalists and television cameramen -- gathered outside the Brahm Raj Empire society in Ghaziabad, where the family currently resides.
Security personnel at the residential complex tightened access and prevented outsiders from entering the premises.
Rashmi Nandakumar, the lawyer who represented the family in the Supreme Court, told PTI over the phone that the family members were not in a position to comment on the development before the media.
When PTI attempted to contact Ashok Rana, father of Harish Rana, the call was picked up, but there was no response from the other side.
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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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