India doctors to examine 'euthanasia' woman

BBC News - India doctors to examine 'euthanasia' woman: India's Supreme Court has directed three doctors to examine the medical condition of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973. The court is hearing a plea to end the life of Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse in Mumbai who has been paralysed and considered 'brain-dead' since she was attacked by a rapist in November 1973. The court will examine if the plea is 'akin to euthanasia'. Hospital authorities say she accepts food, responds by facial expressions, and also by making sounds.