SUPREME COURT ALLOWS PASSIVE EUTHANASIA IN INDIA

SUPREME COURT ALLOWS PASSIVE EUTHANASIA IN INDIA 

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 The term "passive euthanasia" is defined as the withdrawal of medical treatment with deliberate intention to hasten a terminally ill patient's death.The Supreme Court on Friday allowed passive euthanasia, saying that human beings have the right to die with dignity. Permitting euthanasia, the apex court said that it will be permissible with guidelines.

                 Now a person while alive can make a Living will that whenever he becomes seriously ill than his life support system can be withdrawn so that he dies early bearing no more pain when all other efforts will not revive one.If one is unconscious then one;s legal heir in consultation with medical board will take this decision if person has provide a living will while one was conscious and alert to make this will.

             The steps that are generally taken to cause passive euthanasia include turning off respirators, halting medications, discontinuing food and water so as to allow a person to dehydrate or starve to death, or failure to resuscitate, they say.Passive euthanasia also includes giving a patient large doses of morphine to control pain, in spite of the likelihood that the painkiller will suppress respiration and cause death earlier than it otherwise would have happened.

          Such doses of painkillers have a dual effect of relieving pain and hastening death, they say.These procedures are performed on terminally ill, suffering persons so that natural death will occur sooner.They are also commonly performed on persons in a persistent vegetative state; for example, individuals with massive brain damage or in a coma from which they are unlikely to regain consciousness.