{"id":30720,"date":"2018-10-26T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30720"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:26:23","slug":"right-to-avoid-protracted-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-avoid-protracted-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to avoid protracted pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/right-to-avoid-protracted-pain\/article23016382.ece\"><b>Right to avoid protracted pain<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A five judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, \u00a0in a landmark judgment <\/span><b>legalised the right to die and approved \u2018living will\u2019 made by terminally-ill patients for passive euthanasia.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Government arguments:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSuffering is a state of mind and a perception, which varies from individual to individual and depends on various environmental and social factors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continuous advancement in medical science has made possible good pain management in patients of cancer and other terminal illness,\u201d the government had argued.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is a Living Will?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living will is a written document that allows a patient to give explicit instructions in advance about the medical treatment to be administered when he or she is terminally-ill or no longer able to express informed consent<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court\u2019s ruling was pronounced on a 2005 plea filed by Prashant Bhushan on behalf of NGO Common Cause, which sought recognition of a living will so that an individual could exercise the right to refuse medical treatment at a terminally ill stage of life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, had said that under Article 21 (Right to Life) a person had the right to die peacefully without any suffering and must be allowed to create a living will for a time when he cannot recover from an illness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right to avoid protracted pain Context: A five judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, \u00a0in a landmark judgment legalised the right to die and approved \u2018living will\u2019 made by terminally-ill patients for passive euthanasia. Government arguments: \u201cSuffering is a state of mind and a perception, which varies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-avoid-protracted-pain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right to avoid protracted pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704630033},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}