Passive euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as a healer and it may pose serious public risks. The physician who performs euthanasia assumes unique responsibility for the act of ending the patient’s life. Instead of engaging in euthanasia, physicians must aggressively respond to the needs of patients at the end of life.
Recently, in this regard, A five-judge Supreme Court bench hinted at the possibility of allowing people to write "living wills" so that family members could withdraw their life support if they ever reached a stage of terminal illness entirely dependent on artificial means of survival. But, the apex court rejected the Centre's argument that allowing people to write such wills when they are healthy involved "complex social and moral questions" and should not be legally permitted because of the possibility of misuse. Please share your opinion.
