(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated March 26, 2018)
On March 9, 2018, the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment ruled that the right to die with dignity was a fundamental right. Ever since the Aruna Shanbaug case caught the imagination of the nation, debates about euthanasia, and the ethics of keeping people alive with assisted medical support, have raged fiercely. Although Shanbaug was nursed and cared for by the staff of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai for over four decades, public opinion had clearly veered away from keeping her alive in her vegetative state.
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