COVER LETTER

THEME - Human Rights and its Allied Issues

NAME OF THE AUTHOR(S)
 DEVINA BHANDARI
STUDENT OF B.B.A. LL.B (Hons.)
[B.B.A., L.L.B. (Hons), 5th SEMESTER]

 VARUN PANDIT
STUDENT OF B.B.A. LL.B (Hons.)
[B.B.A., L.L.B. (Hons), 5th SEMESTER]

ADDRESSES & CONTACT NUMBERS

 DEVINA BHANDARI – 128, New Rajdhani Enclave
Vikas Marg, New Delhi- 110092
( Mobile No. - 8800826135)
davibhandari@gmail.com

 VARUN PANDIT – C 60, sector 14

Noida – 110069 ( Uttar Pradesh )
(Mobile No. – 8447359498)
varunsameer98@gmail.com

INSTITUTION
 AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AMITY UNIVERSITY
SECTOR – 125
NOIDA (UP) - 201301

COURSE BEING PURSUED

 B.B.A., L.L.B. (Hons)
 ABSTRACT

“Euthanasia should be an inalienable human right”

Life is a gift of god. Hence an attempt to suicide is a punishable offence in India, and
rightly so. But when someone is being forced to breathe in a comatose, vegetative state,
the person becomes totally dependent upon the munificence and goodwill gesture of
others, in order to just breathe. Such persons, by virtue of fate, become burdensome for
some, who might be facing challenges of their own, to survive. Persons in such hapless
vegetative state, also lose their right to dignity and privacy, since they have to be washed
and cleaned by others to maintain hygiene and sanitation requirements. Article 21 of
Indian Constitution confers upon us the “right to life”, which has an implied meaning of
living with dignity. But there is no such Article in the Constitution of India, which
confers the right to die with dignity, through euthanasia.
Euthanasia is a painless and honorable exit to this world, in cases of persons in
vegetative, comatose state. The Aruna Shaunbag case was a watershed moment in
history, since it was in this case, wherein the Supreme Court in a landmark judgement
delivered on 07 March 2011, issued a broad set of guidelines legalizing passive
euthanasia in India. Not withstanding, there is a need to frame a law in India on
euthanasia, in social, legal, medical and constitutional perspective, which will benefit
humanity as a whole. The need of the hour is the tabling of a Bill in Parliament to
legalize euthanasia. Given the social fabric of our country, it is inferred that debates will
be intense, for and against euthanasia, in both houses of the Parliament.