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Ghalib To Shakespeare: Supreme Court's Tryst With "Right To Die With Dignity"
Back in 2011, while deciding the Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea, the Supreme Court had invoked Mirza Ghalib's couplet: "Marte hain aarzoo mein marne ki, Maut aati hai par nahin aati".
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When Supreme Court First Recognised Concept Of Passive Euthanasia
Passive euthanasia in exceptional circumstances was first legalised in India in the Aruna Shanbaug vs Union of India judgment in 2011.
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Harish Rana Can Die Because Aruna Shanbaug Lived: India's Euthanasia Journey
Fifty-three-years before the Supreme Court allowed Uttar Pradesh's Harish Rana to die, a 25-year-old nurse suffered a brutal sexual assault at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital
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Aruna Shanbaug And The Right To Die With Dignity: Top Court Allows Passive Euthanasia
The Supreme Court verdict allowing passive euthanasia for the "right to die with dignity" takes us back to Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, a nurse at the KEM Hospital who lay like a vegetable, at ward number 4 for 42 years.
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A Tribute to Aruna Shanbaug by One of Her Nurses
Aruna Shanbaug would sometimes scream when we entered her room. She was very afraid, says Namrata Kasabe, nurse at KEM Hospital.
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Mumbai Nurse Aruna Shanbaug Dies After 42-year Coma That Followed her Rape
Aruna Shanbaug, a Mumbai nurse who was raped in 1973 by a ward boy at the hospital she worked in, has died after being in a coma for 42 years. She was 68.
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Mumbai Nurse Aruna Shanbaug, In Coma for 42 Years After Rape, in Critical Condition
Aruna Shanbaug, the Mumbai nurse who was raped by a hospital staff member in 1973 and has been in coma ever since, is in a critical condition.
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Let her die when she has to: Aruna Shanbaug's sister
A week after the Supreme Court rejected activist Pinki Virani's euthanasia plea for Aruna Shanbaug, her sister Shanta Nayak says she wants Aruna to live."We don't want her to get mercy killing. She will die when she has to," Shanta tells NDTV.Seventy five-year-old Shanta can barely walk and lives with her daughter in a chawl in Central Mumbai. The ...
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Bihar parents seek mercy killing for two sons
Asha Devi is aware of the cruel irony. "Mothers seek long lives for their children, but here I am seeking death for my two sons," she says, slumped beside Nitin, 15, and Anshu, 13, who suffer from muscular dystrophy.The rare muscular disorder is characterised by the death of muscle cells and tissue, and reduces its victims to skeleton-like shapes, ...
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Serious debate on euthanasia needed: Moily
Government today said a serious debate was needed on the issue of euthanasia as there were no laws at present on it in the country after the Supreme Court rejected a mercy killing petition on behalf of Aruna Shanbaug."There is no question of concurring or not with the judgement. But in fact, they (Supreme Court) are right that without a law you can...
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Ghalib To Shakespeare: Supreme Court's Tryst With "Right To Die With Dignity"
Back in 2011, while deciding the Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea, the Supreme Court had invoked Mirza Ghalib's couplet: "Marte hain aarzoo mein marne ki, Maut aati hai par nahin aati".
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When Supreme Court First Recognised Concept Of Passive Euthanasia
Passive euthanasia in exceptional circumstances was first legalised in India in the Aruna Shanbaug vs Union of India judgment in 2011.
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Harish Rana Can Die Because Aruna Shanbaug Lived: India's Euthanasia Journey
Fifty-three-years before the Supreme Court allowed Uttar Pradesh's Harish Rana to die, a 25-year-old nurse suffered a brutal sexual assault at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital
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Aruna Shanbaug And The Right To Die With Dignity: Top Court Allows Passive Euthanasia
The Supreme Court verdict allowing passive euthanasia for the "right to die with dignity" takes us back to Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, a nurse at the KEM Hospital who lay like a vegetable, at ward number 4 for 42 years.
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A Tribute to Aruna Shanbaug by One of Her Nurses
Aruna Shanbaug would sometimes scream when we entered her room. She was very afraid, says Namrata Kasabe, nurse at KEM Hospital.
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Mumbai Nurse Aruna Shanbaug Dies After 42-year Coma That Followed her Rape
Aruna Shanbaug, a Mumbai nurse who was raped in 1973 by a ward boy at the hospital she worked in, has died after being in a coma for 42 years. She was 68.
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Mumbai Nurse Aruna Shanbaug, In Coma for 42 Years After Rape, in Critical Condition
Aruna Shanbaug, the Mumbai nurse who was raped by a hospital staff member in 1973 and has been in coma ever since, is in a critical condition.
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Let her die when she has to: Aruna Shanbaug's sister
A week after the Supreme Court rejected activist Pinki Virani's euthanasia plea for Aruna Shanbaug, her sister Shanta Nayak says she wants Aruna to live."We don't want her to get mercy killing. She will die when she has to," Shanta tells NDTV.Seventy five-year-old Shanta can barely walk and lives with her daughter in a chawl in Central Mumbai. The ...
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Bihar parents seek mercy killing for two sons
Asha Devi is aware of the cruel irony. "Mothers seek long lives for their children, but here I am seeking death for my two sons," she says, slumped beside Nitin, 15, and Anshu, 13, who suffer from muscular dystrophy.The rare muscular disorder is characterised by the death of muscle cells and tissue, and reduces its victims to skeleton-like shapes, ...
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Serious debate on euthanasia needed: Moily
Government today said a serious debate was needed on the issue of euthanasia as there were no laws at present on it in the country after the Supreme Court rejected a mercy killing petition on behalf of Aruna Shanbaug."There is no question of concurring or not with the judgement. But in fact, they (Supreme Court) are right that without a law you can...
