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Euthanasia: Who decides when life should end?

The French move raises an old question that goes far beyond France: should a person have the right to decide when and how their life ends if suffering has become unbearable?

Harish Rana. Photo: Collected

Indian man whose life support was removed after court approval dies

A man walks inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, on 17 July 2018. File Photo: Reuters

In a first, India's Supreme Court allows withdrawal of life support to man in coma for over 12 years

Victor Escobar, 60, who suffered from an end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and became the first person in Colombia to undergo euthanasia for a non-terminal disease, sits on the sofa in his home in Cali, Colombia October 19, 2021. Picture taken October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Edwin Rodriguez Pipicano

First Colombian with non-terminal illness dies legally by euthanasia