Euthanasia- Right to Painless Death

Vol-4 | Issue-04 | April 2019 | Published Online: 15 April 2019    PDF ( 151 KB )
Author(s)
Chander Parkash Singh 1; Sheetal Sharma 2; Neha Slathia 3

1Student, School of law, Lovely Professional University (India)

2Student, LLM, 2018, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab (India)

3Student, LLM, 2018, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab (India)

Abstract

When a person is interminably ill or is in a vegetative state then he/she has a right to die with dignity without pain. This painless death is referred to as EUTHANASIA i.e. painless inducement of quick death. There is no quality of life when patient is dead or in a vegetative state. The following paper will deal with three aspects of human life i.e. both, life and death. Moreover, the paper will focus more on practicality of application of Euthanasia or granting of Euthanasia. There is a very thin line difference between Euthanasia and assisted suicide. Euthanasia can be classified as passive euthanasia and active euthanasia. Though India has made passive euthanasia legal but on certain on guidelines. Active euthanasia still is not legal in India. The authors through this paper would like to suggest to legalize active euthanasia after discussing its merits and demerits.

Keywords
Euthanasia, Painless death
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