Karnataka Implements 'Right-To-Die With Dignity' Policy: What Does It Mean?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka Implements 'Right-To-Die With Dignity' Policy: What Does It Mean?

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The Karnataka Health Department has officially implemented the Supreme Court’s directive that allows terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity. “This will immensely benefit those who are terminally ill, have no hope of recovery, or are in a persistent vegetative state, where life-sustaining treatment is no longer benefits from life-sustaining treatment,” he said. This will immensely benefit those who are terminally ill with no hope of recovery, or are in a persistent vegetative state, and… pic.twitter.com/UxN2zMdN1c — Dinesh Gundu Rao/ದಿನೇಶ್ ಗುಂಡೂರಾವ್ January 31, 2025 What Does 'Right-To-Die' Mean? The cirular read: "To enable a dignified death, it has held that life-sustaining treatment may be withheld or withdrawn where the patient is terminally ill with no hope of recovery, or is in a persistent vegetative state, and where the patient no longer benefits from life-sustaining treatment.

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'Dying with dignity' debate must balance care, choice
1 week ago

'Dying with dignity' debate must balance care, choice

India Today  

In recent years, there has been active debate on whether healthcare should be focused on saving lives or the quality of life. This debate has only gathered pace after the Supreme Court, in a historic verdict in 2018, allowed for ‘passive euthanasia’ while recognising the right of patients to make advance directives or ‘living wills’. The India Today Conclave brought …

The right to die with dignity | Need to balance care and choice
1 week, 3 days ago

The right to die with dignity | Need to balance care and choice

India Today  

I n recent years, there has been active debate on whether healthcare should be focused on saving lives or the quality of life. This debate has only gathered pace after the Supreme Court, in a historic verdict in 2018, allowed for ‘passive euthanasia’ while recognising the right of patients to make advance directives or ‘living wills’. The India Today Conclave …

Can India handle legal euthanasia? Experts highlight risks and challenges
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Can India handle legal euthanasia? Experts highlight risks and challenges

India Today  

The debate surrounding the right to die with dignity has gathered pace in India, with legal, ethical, and medical connotations being widely debated. At the India Today Conclave 2025, experts representing a wide range of backgrounds scoured into the nuances of passive and active euthanasia, living wills, and palliative care. Senior Counsel Nisha Bhambhani pointed to the legal ambiguities: "While …

Tirumala laddoo plot turns murkier: Inferior ghee, proxy firms, fake GST slips
1 month, 1 week ago

Tirumala laddoo plot turns murkier: Inferior ghee, proxy firms, fake GST slips

India Today  

Karnataka has become the first Indian state to issue orders to implement the Supreme Court’s directive of 2023 regarding a patient’s right to die with dignity. A dignified death is every person’s right: The absence of a Right to Die law can prolong unnecessary suffering for terminally ill patients, forcing them to endure severe pain and loss of dignity. Right …

How Karnataka's 'right to die with dignity' initiative is life-changing
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Karnataka's 'right to die with dignity' initiative is life-changing

India Today  

Karnataka has become the first Indian state to issue orders to implement the Supreme Court’s directive of 2023 regarding a patient’s right to die with dignity. A dignified death is every person’s right: The absence of a Right to Die law can prolong unnecessary suffering for terminally ill patients, forcing them to endure severe pain and loss of dignity. Right …

85-yr-old woman nears approval to be Karnataka's first right-to-die beneficiary
1 month, 2 weeks ago

85-yr-old woman nears approval to be Karnataka's first right-to-die beneficiary

India Today  

An 85-year-old retired government school teacher, HB Karibasamma, is on the verge of making history as Karnataka’s first beneficiary of the ‘right to die with dignity’ policy. After decades of relentless advocacy, her wish is set to be fulfilled following the state government’s circular issued on January 30, granting terminally ill patients the right to end their suffering legally. She …

What is Karnataka’s ‘historic’ order on ‘right to die with dignity’?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

What is Karnataka’s ‘historic’ order on ‘right to die with dignity’?

Firstpost  

The Karnataka government has called for establishing medical boards in hospitals across the state to ensure the right to die with dignity for terminally ill patients, complying with the Supreme Court’s 2023 order. While ‘passive euthanasia’ is legal in India, the concept of living wills has yet to gain ground Karnataka's order will ensure the right to die with dignity …

Karnataka to implement Supreme Court’s directive for patient’s ‘right to die with dignity’. All you need to know
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka to implement Supreme Court’s directive for patient’s ‘right to die with dignity’. All you need to know

Live Mint  

Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday said that the state health department has issued a groundbreaking order to enforce the Supreme Court's ruling on a patient's right to die with dignity. “My Karnataka Health Department, @DHFWKA, passes a historic order to implement the Supreme Court's directive for a patients Right to Die with dignity,” he said. "We have …

Karnataka enacts SC order on right to die with dignity
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka enacts SC order on right to die with dignity

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka health department has issued orders to implement the Supreme Court’s 2023 directive regarding a patient’s right to die with dignity, becoming the first state to do so. Karnataka enacts SC order on right to die with dignity In orders issued on Thursday, the health department appointed medical experts to the secondary medical board to decide when life-sustaining treatment …

In historic move, Karnataka allows dignified death for the terminally ill
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

In historic move, Karnataka allows dignified death for the terminally ill

The Hindu  

In a historic move, the Karnataka Health Department, on January 30, 2025, issued an order to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing terminally ill patients to die with dignity. “To enable a dignified death, the Supreme Court has held that life-sustaining treatment may be withheld or withdrawn where the patient is terminally ill with no hope of recovery or is …

Karnataka now allows dignified death for the terminally ill
Top News
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka now allows dignified death for the terminally ill

The Hindu  

In a historic move, the Karnataka Health Department, on January 30, 2025, issued an order to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing terminally ill patients to die with dignity. “To enable a dignified death, the Supreme Court has held that life-sustaining treatment may be withheld or withdrawn where the patient is terminally ill with no hope of recovery or is …

Karnataka implements guidelines to allow terminally ill patients 'right to die with dignity'
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka implements guidelines to allow terminally ill patients 'right to die with dignity'

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has issued orders to implement the Supreme Court’s directive regarding a patient’s Right to Die with dignity. In the orders issued on Thursday, the health department appointed medical experts to the Secondary Medical Board to decide when life-sustaining treatment can be stopped for terminally ill patients. This ruling specifically applies to patients who have been undergoing …

In pursuit of death
5 months, 3 weeks ago

In pursuit of death

Times of India  

New guidelines aim to support the rights of terminally ill patients on life support The Situation Today | In India, more people than ever are getting access to life-saving treatments. The new guidelines from the government about stopping life support for terminally ill patients are meant to make it easier for them to exercise this right. Recent Court Cases | …

Suit For Injunction In Respect Of Immovable Property Not Abated On Death Of Parties: Karnataka High Court
2 years, 10 months ago

Suit For Injunction In Respect Of Immovable Property Not Abated On Death Of Parties: Karnataka High Court

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has said that in a suit relating to grant of injunction in respect of an immovable property, the right to sue is not personal to the plaintiff but survives to his legal representative and the suit for injunction would not therefore abate on the death of the parties. Referring to Section 2 of CPC, which is …

Freedom To Die: A Look At Active Euthanasia's Position In The Indian Legal System
3 years, 6 months ago

Freedom To Die: A Look At Active Euthanasia's Position In The Indian Legal System

Live Law  

Active euthanasia or voluntary euthanasia, sometimes also known as aggressive euthanasia is the act of voluntarily administering substances by a physician with the patient's consent which is capable of ending the patient's life thereby putting an end to their suffering which has led them to the decision to die in the first place. Laws Of Other Countries Allowing Active Euthanasia …

Chandigarh couple draws up ‘living will’ to die with dignity
5 years, 3 months ago

Chandigarh couple draws up ‘living will’ to die with dignity

Hindustan Times  

Close to two years after the Supreme Court ruled that a person has the right to decide against artificial life support by creating a “living will”, a professor couple of Chandigarh has drawn one up to “die with dignity”. It took the couple nine months to draft their two-page “living will”, which complies with the SC judgment on passive euthanasia. …

Everyone has right to die with dignity: Chief Justice of India on euthanasia
6 years, 6 months ago

Everyone has right to die with dignity: Chief Justice of India on euthanasia

Deccan Chronicle  

Pune: Just a few days after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgment by decriminalising homosexuality, Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra said that each individual has the right to life as well as the right to live with dignity, but cases involving conflicting interest have to be dealt with in a balanced manner. Delivering the Dr Patangrao Kadam Memorial …

‘It is a person’s right’
6 years, 11 months ago

‘It is a person’s right’

The Hindu  

PINKI VIRANI’s crusade for a dignified death via passive euthanasia for Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse who had been raped and assaulted so brutally that she remained in persistent vegetative state for 42 years, has finally come to an end. The March 2018 judgment on legalising passive euthanasia, through advance directives and a living will, is considered a historic one. The …

If It Is My ‘Living Will’ to Die, Why Should the State Care?
7 years ago

If It Is My ‘Living Will’ to Die, Why Should the State Care?

The Quint  

The collapse of joint families and changing lifestyles has meant more and more old people are spending their last days in the clinical environment of a hospital, or a nursing home surrounded by strangers rather than loved ones. With dementia and mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s becoming as widespread, as cancer was a generation earlier, an advance decision allows a person …

Right to die with dignity' is part of right to life, says Supreme Court
7 years ago

Right to die with dignity' is part of right to life, says Supreme Court

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: In a landmark and progressive judgement, the Supreme Court on Friday held that ‘right to die with dignity’ is part of right to life, a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution, and allowed “living will” where, an ailing adult in his conscious mind, is permitted to refuse medical treatment or voluntarily decide not to take medical …

Passive Euthanasia legalised by Supreme Court: What is living will and right to die with dignity?
7 years ago

Passive Euthanasia legalised by Supreme Court: What is living will and right to die with dignity?

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court on Friday recognised a person’e right to die with dignity while giving sanction to passive euthanasia and living will. The Supreme Court on Friday recognised a person’s right to die with dignity while giving sanction to passive euthanasia and living will. The Supreme Court said that it has laid down guidelines on who would execute the will …

SC Constitution Bench holds passive euthanasia, living wills permissible
7 years ago

SC Constitution Bench holds passive euthanasia, living wills permissible

The Hindu  

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court on Friday declared passive euthanasia and the right of persons, including the terminally ill, to give advance directives to refuse medical treatment permissible. A Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, in three concurring opinions, upheld that the fundamental right to life and dignity includes right to refuse treatment and …

How to have a decent death: Living wills versus a DND for dying with dignity
7 years ago

How to have a decent death: Living wills versus a DND for dying with dignity

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on 27 October, 2017. But we recognise that every individual has a right to die with dignity.” This Constitution Bench — CJI Dipak Misra, A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan — is referring to the SC’s own landmark judgement-law on passive euthanasia in 2011 which places the right-of-choice …

Supreme Court approves passive euthanasia, upholds right to die with dignity
7 years ago

Supreme Court approves passive euthanasia, upholds right to die with dignity

Hindustan Times  

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that in specific circumstances, a person has the right to decide against artificial life support by creating a living will. The Supreme Court also laid down guidelines on who would execute the will and how a nod for passive euthanasia would be granted by a medical board. A five-judge constitutional …

SC Allows Passive Euthanasia and Living Will, Issues Guidelines: A Landmark Judgment
7 years ago

SC Allows Passive Euthanasia and Living Will, Issues Guidelines: A Landmark Judgment

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India has declared that the right to die with dignity is a fundamental right. This means that the right to life and liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution encompasses within its sphere individual dignity. The court also held that passive euthanasia and a living will are legally valid. The court has issued detailed guidelines in …

Breaking : Right To Die With Dignity A Fundamental Right, SC Allows Passive Euthanasia And Living Will, Issues Guidelines [READ JUDGMENT]
7 years ago

Breaking : Right To Die With Dignity A Fundamental Right, SC Allows Passive Euthanasia And Living Will, Issues Guidelines [READ JUDGMENT]

Live Law  

Supreme Court of India has held that right to die with dignity is a fundamental right. The Bench also held that passive euthanasia and a living will also legally valid. When passive euthanasia as a situational palliative measure becomes applicable, the best interest of the patient shall override the State interest", said the CJI The Constitution Bench of Chief Justice …

Supreme Court allows 'living will' for passive euthanasia with guidelines, says human beings have right to die with dignity
7 years ago

Supreme Court allows 'living will' for passive euthanasia with guidelines, says human beings have right to die with dignity

India TV News  

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed passive euthanasia with certain guidelines saying a person has the "right to die with dignity" and can make an advance "living will" authorising the withdrawal of life support system if in medical view he or she has reached an irreversible stage of terminal illness. The top court also said right …

Passive euthanasia already a law: govt
7 years, 5 months ago

Passive euthanasia already a law: govt

The Hindu  

Passive euthanasia, the act of withdrawing life support to a terminally-ill patient, is already the law of the land, the government told a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. The government pointed out that the Supreme Court itself, in 2011, had issued comprehensive guidelines allowing passive euthanasia in the tragic case of the bed-ridden former Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug. The …

Centre Presents Draft Bill on Passive Euthanasia, Asks for Views
8 years, 10 months ago

Centre Presents Draft Bill on Passive Euthanasia, Asks for Views

The Quint  

After many years of debates and legal discussions, the union government has presented a draft Bill on passive euthanasia that gives patients the right to “withhold or withdraw medical treatment to herself or himself” and “allow nature to take its own course”, The Times of India reported. Reacting to this, award-winning author Pinki Virani has asked for the law to …

Of mercy and ending life
14 years ago

Of mercy and ending life

The Hindu  

“We could have dismissed the petition on the short ground that…the right to life guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution does not include the right to die,” observe Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra sagely in the Aruna Shanbaug case. “However, in view of the importance of the issues involved we decided to go deeper into the merits …

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