India's Supreme Court lays out euthanasia guidelines
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 01:00
in Health & Medicine
Justices reject a plea for its use on a woman in a vegetative state but issue guidelines allowing for the use of 'passive' euthanasia for terminally ill patients through the withholding of treatment.India's Supreme Court on Monday laid out guidelines for the use of euthanasia in extreme situations involving terminally ill patients, even as it rejected a plea for its use in the case of a woman who has been in a vegetative state for nearly four decades.