-The Times of India MUMBAI: A new set of global guidelines on managing diabetes that aim to replace those followed for over three decades, has stirred up a controversy within the medical community. Medical practitioners here in India feel the guidelines which recommend relaxing blood sugar targets will, not only lead to serious complications in diabetics, but also confusion in Treatment protocol, advising that these should be ignored for Indians. There were over...
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Lawyers voice euthanasia misuse fear -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Eminent advocate K.T.S. Tulsi has decided to take the lead among Indians in penning a living will, but most lawyers feel that Friday's Supreme Court judgment legalising passive euthanasia is open to misuse in a country notorious for property disputes. "I haven't yet written my living will but shall definitely do so," Tulsi, a Rajya Sabha member, told The Telegraph on Saturday while welcoming the judgment. The court said...
More »Long battle lies ahead, say 'die with dignity' activists -Sumitra Debroy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The city has held a special spot in the four-decades-long battle to demand a dignified exit for very ill persons who are beyond Treatment and unlikely to live a quality life. On Friday, the SC judgment legalising passive euthanasia and living will was welcomed by those championing the cause, but they called it just the beginning of a long journey ahead. One of the earliest demands for...
More »SC Constitution Bench holds passive euthanasia, living wills permissible -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Right to dignity includes right to refuse Treatment and die with dignity. 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...
More »Right to live includes right to die: Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra and Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a milestone verdict expanding the right to life to incorporate the right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court on Friday legalised passive euthanasia and approved 'living will' to provide terminally ill patients or those in persistent and incurable vegetative state (PVS) a dignified exit by refusing medical Treatment or life support. The verdict, the latest in a string of boosts for individual freedoms by...
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