- A notice is issued by SC to all States and Union Territories seeking their response to decide, whether the right to die with dignity was part of the right to live with dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution (right to life and liberty)
- The Constitution bench issued a notice on a petition filed by Common Cause, NGO, if a person with chronic diseases will likely go into an irreversible state then they must have “living will” to refuse treatment and die
- As per medical experts a person with terminal diseases should be given right to refuse being put on a life-support system
- Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi who has filed a petition presented that passive euthanasia was a form of suicide which could not be allowed as it would amount to an offence, religion, morality, medical sciences and social sciences are involved in this
- Euthanasia would be misused in the country if it was legalized and the right to die merely because of pain and suffering would not be in the interest of society and was against public policy
- Parliamentary could make changes in the law but passive euthanasia is wrong, the fact that what was the least painful way to bring life to an end was debatable
- T.R. Andhyarujina senior advocate is appointed amicus curiae to assist the court considering the importance of the case
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/sc-notice-to-states-on-right-to-die-with-dignity/article6218904.ece