The Law Commission has come out in support of the Supreme Court judgement on allowing withdrawal of life-support measures of a dying patient with certain safeguards, saying it is 'not objectionable' f

Failing to get her cerebral palsy-affected daughter admitted in a special home, a woman has sought euthanasia for the 14-year-old girl. The woman submitted the petition during the grievances redress m

The government is unlikely to enact a law on the sensitive issue of euthanasia even a year after the Supreme Court allowed the High Courts to take a call on withdrawal of life support for patients liv

Animal control officials got a go-ahead from a Nevada state court judge to euthanise a 54-kilogram dog that fatally mauled a 1-year-old boy at home, despite efforts by a New York-based rescue group to

Prosecutors in Uruguay filed murder charges on Sunday against two nurses for at least 16 mercy killings, and jailed the suspects, the judge in charge of the case said.

The male nurses, 39 and 46, wer

Six specialised teams, each with a doctor, will criss-cross the Netherlands as of Thursday to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own doctors refuse to do so, a pro-mercy killing group

Life-support system given to a brain-damaged, minimally-conscious woman should not be withdrawn and she should not be allowed to die, a judge has ruled.

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March 7: In an unprecedented verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday opened the window to permitting “mercy killing” of terminally ill patients agonising in hospital for long, with no hope of survival. T

New Delhi: Following is the chronology of events relating to the 60-year-old KEM nurse Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug whose plea for mercy killing was on Monday rejected by the Supreme Court.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court appears all set to shed light on Monday on the complexities involved in laying down a law on mercy killing in the case of a nurse lying in a 'persistent vegetative state'