Mercy killing? - 0 views
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the issue of euthanasia has no easy answers and has always had its share of controversy whenever its come up here or abroad, ridden as it is by ethical and religious concerns.
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The Bill had proposed that the patients undergoing acute suffering and given less than six mon-ths to live could seek death if they were of sound mind.
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One such instance was that of 25-year-old Venkatesh who petitioned the Andhra Pradesh high court in 2004 seeking euthanasia while on life-support in a Hyderabad hospital, his body wracked by a debilitating muscular disorder.
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