Indian Supreme Court says ‘passive euthanasia’ legal

Aruna to live, but SC says ‘passive euthanasia’ legal - Hindustan Times: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of India legalised passive euthanasia, giving thousands of patients living in a vegetative state all over the country the right to have artificial life-support systems withdrawn to enable them to end a life of misery. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra however said the right to permit a terminally ill patient to refuse medical treatment would be given under ‘guarded conditions” to prevent its misuse. The bench ruled that active euthanasia, which involves giving terminally ill patients lethal drugs to end their lives, could not be allowed as it is unconstitutional.