Common Cause v. Union of India (2018) , the court legalized passive euthanasia and recognized the right to die with dignity as a fundamental right under
Constitution of India
India
Constitution of India
CONTITUENTASSEMBLY 00 of 1950
Published in Gazette 00
Penal Code
D.3 The approach in Aruna Shanbaug qua 30
Passive Euthanasia vis-à-vis India
D.4 The Reference 42
E. Our analysis ... 241st Report of The Law Commission of 114
India on Passive Euthanasia
J. Right to refuse treatment 120
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K. Passive Euthanasia in the context
Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug vs Union Of India & Ors on 7 March, 2011
Equivalent citations
under :-
(I) Active euthanasia
(II) Passive euthanasia
(III) Voluntary euthanasia
(IV) Non voluntary euthanasia
(V) Involuntary euthanasia.
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euthanasia entails use of lethal substances or forces to kill
a person while passive euthanasia entails with holding
COMMON
CAUSE 2018 ......................................................................... 24
I. The Essential Distinction: Active and Passive Euthanasia . 27
II. Permissibility of Passive Euthanasia under Article 21 of the
Constitution ... choice between active and passive
euthanasia. For their Lordships, the term ‘euthanasia’ was reserved
exclusively for ‘Active Euthanasia’. What all the four concurring
opinions
examine the health condition
of the Petitioner for administration of passive euthanasia.
2. The facts of the case reveal that the Petitioner, who is about ... consider as to whether the Petitioner can be allowed
to undergo passive euthanasia.
4. A Bench of five Judges of the Apex Court in Common
proponents of
Euthanasia, while we can debate whether active euthanasia should be legal,
there cannot be any doubt about passive euthanasia as "you cannot ... society who believe
that euthanasia should be made lawful, but as the laws now stand, euthanasia
(other than passive euthanasia) is a crime in common
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present petitions and also because
in euthanasia a third person is either actively or passively
involved about whom it may be said that he aids ... much unrelated to the act of committing suicide inasmuch as
wherever passive euthanasia has been held to be permissible
under