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How much pain is a person expected to tolerate before they are allowed to die in peace? For Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old from Barcelona, that question wasn’t a philosophical debate—it was her daily reality. On March 26, 2026, Noelia quietly passed away via voluntary euthanasia. Her death marked the end of a legal battle…
NEW DELHI: The cremation of Harish Rana in Delhi on Wednesday marked a quiet end to a case that had stirred complex questions about life, dignity and medical ethics in India.Rana, first person in the country to be granted passive euthanasia, died on Tuesday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after spending more…
NEW DELHI: Harish Rana, the first patient in India to be permitted passive euthanasia under a Supreme Court order, passed away Tuesday after spending 13 years in a vegetative state. The end came at 4.10pm at AIIMS, with family by his side, marking the culmination of a legal battle over the right to die with…
NEW DELHI: 31-year-old Harish Rana, the first person to be granted passive euthanasia in India, passed away at AIIMS-Delhi on Tuesday after remaining in a vegetative state for over 13 years, according to PTI. Rana had been in a vegetative state since August 2013 after falling from a building in Chandigarh.The Supreme Court had on…
Rana was shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday and placed under a specialised medical team for passive euthanasia. NEW DELHI: A 22-second clip showed, 32-year-old Harish Rana, lying on a hospital bed with his emotional mother by his side. In the video, a woman can be heard saying, “Forgive…
In landmark judgement, Supreme Court allows first ever passive euthanasia for 31 year-old patient in vegetative state NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday quoted from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” as it approved passive euthanasia for 31-year-old Harish Rana, who has been in a vegetative state since August 2013 following a fall from a building in…
The Supreme Court has permitted passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a 31-year-old man in a permanent vegetative state since 2013 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has permitted the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for 31-year-old Harish Rana, who has remained in a permanent vegetative state for more than a decade after suffering a severe brain injury…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the withdrawal of medical treatment to 31 year old Harish Rana in a first passive euthanasia case in the country. The top court directed Delhi’s AIIMS to admit Rana and provide all necessary facilities in carrying out exercise of withdrawing life support system.A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and…
NEW DELHI: The choice is between an artificially sustained painful life and peaceful death. As a medical board of four specialised doctors told Supreme Court about the condition of 31-year-old Harish Rana who has been living with 100% disability in a permanent vegetative state for 13 years and stressed the negligible chance of his recovery,…
Alice and Ellen Kessler, the legendary German twins who rose to fame in the post war era, have died at the age of 89. The inseparable sisters chose to leave the world in the same way they lived in it. They lived together always at their home in Munich and also chose to die together,…
