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Advocate from Kanpur becomes first in country to register 'living will'
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Kanpur, (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Mar 22 (ANI): A 35-year old advocate from Kanpur becomes the country's first citizen to register a 'living will', following the Supreme Court ruling in favour of passive euthanasia on terminally-ill patients earlier this month.
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UP: Muscular Dystrophy patients stage hunger strike seeking Centre's assis
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 12 (ANI): A mother-daughter duo suffering from Muscular Dystrophy embarked on a hunger strike demanding assistance from the Centre for medical treatment or permission to undergo euthanasia or mercy killing.
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Jain monk welcomes SC's euthanasia verdict
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Mar. 10 (ANI): Jain Muni (monk) Tarun Sagar on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's landmark decision to allow passive euthanasia, saying it coincided with the tenets of Jainism.
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SC allows Passive Euthanasia with guidelines
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India] Mar 9 (ANI): In a landmark ruling, The Supreme Court on Friday allowed passive euthanasia, or withholding treatment essential to life for a terminally-ill patient.
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Mumbai: Elderly couple writes to President seeking active euthanasia
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] January 11 (ANI): An elderly couple from Mumbai wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking permission for an "active euthanasia".
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Partially paralysed man seeks permission for euthanasia
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India] November 14 (ANI): A 45-year-old man from Coimbatore has sought permission from the State government for euthanasia and offered to donate his organs for the needy.
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Passive euthanasia: SC reserves verdict on living will
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on 'living will' in cases of passive euthanasia.
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Passive euthanasia case: Centre opposes the living will
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): The Central government on Tuesday opposed the living will in "passive euthanasia" case and told the Supreme Court's five-judge Constitution bench that it could be enormously misused.
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SC to begin hearing on plea favouring euthanasia today
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court's Constitution bench will today begin the hearing on a plea favouring euthanasia.
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UP: Mother seeks 'euthanasia' for daughter from PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India] June 2 (ANI): A woman from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking euthanasia for her daughter Anamika Mishra who is suffering from Muscular Dystrophy Disease.
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UP: Sugarcane farmers write to PM Modi, CM Yogi, threaten 'suicide�
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): A group of sugarcane farmers have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, demanding euthanasia.
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Highly qualified specially-abled girl seeks euthanasia after failing to ge
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (MP) [India], Sept. 25 (ANI): At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about giving special status and respect to specially-abled people or 'divyangs', Laxmi Yadav, a specially-abled girl from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal has sought euthanasia after being rejected
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