Slug: SC verdict on euthanasia
Bengaluru: Hours after the Supreme Court allowed passive euthanasia on Friday, the circle of relatives of a throat and neck cancer patient from Bengaluru approached his oncologist with a plea: “Can his demise be hastened within the gentle of the apex courtroom judgment?”
Doctors at HCG Cancer Hospital in Sampangiram Nagar, however, counselled the patient’s family members — including his youngsters — that he was in an altered state of awareness and now not comatose.
“The judgment has to be interpreted very moderately. In the absence of a living will and when the individual isn't comatose but ‘terminally unwell’, such requests from the patient’s circle of relatives should be handled moderately via counselling them. The circle of relatives has misunderstood passive euthanasia as active euthanasia. We can’t hasten his demise and induce coma. The circle of relatives is very disturbed,” stated Dr U S Vishal Rao, head and neck oncologist at HCG who handled the case.
“Passive euthanasia will have to now not be unsuitable for hastening demise. It simplest means that no active intervention is made to lend a hand a patient live when s/he is in an irreversible comatose state,” Dr Rao defined. According to the doctor, there is a moral, scientific and felony perspective to euthanasia, which has to be tested moderately within the wake of the verdict.
‘Passive Euthanasia is the improper time period’
Doctors in Bengaluru recommend excessive care while addressing issues raised via the Supreme Court ruling.
“It’s the fitting judgment but wrongly worded. There is nothing referred to as passive euthanasia anywhere on the earth. Ideally, the Supreme Court will have to have stated it's allowing chickening out and withholding of life toughen system, as according to the Indian Council of Medical Research terminology document,” Dr Stanley Macadam, a palliative care specialist and former director of Bangalore Baptist Hospital, instructed TOI.
“We don’t paintings in opposition to hastening demise. It’s about chickening out the life toughen system to permit natural demise. We don’t recommend passive euthanasia and the verdict has been wrongly worded. It can confuse patients,” concurred Dr Prabha Seshachar, senior marketing consultant, department of palliative drugs, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.
Calling it a landmark verdict, Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, chairman, Manipal Hospitals, stated, “Living will is what is being practised in the USA for decades now. But it will have to be applied as it should be and judiciously. We will consult with our felony staff how it will have to be taken ahead in case a patient’s circle of relatives makes a request.”
She had sought euthanasia in 2010
Davanagere: Karibasamma, 79, had petitioned the Karnataka High Court in 2010 in search of euthanasia but her petition was rejected.
Suffering from diabetes, arthritis and slip disc, Karibasamma, who now lives in an old-age home in Davanagere, stated she was elated. “Though I’m satisfied, I nonetheless have to read the stipulations laid down within the courtroom order,” she stated.
The prime courtroom had referred her to Nimhans. Several social activists too had impleaded themselves within the petition opposing her plea. The courtroom famous Nimhans’ findings pronouncing her “backbone is customary” and she has “no psychological dysfunction”, while taking out her petition on September 12, 2012.
The Nimhans report stated that Karibasamma refused to undergo additional investigation and drugs, and suggested she be supplied psychiatric counselling. She stated she had written a three-page letter to the Supreme Court and Union government on December 12, 2017, in search of their intervention in permitting euthanasia.
“A panel of retired judges and medical doctors will have to be set up to communicate to patients at the demise mattress and make a decision on allowing euthanasia,” she stated.
Bengaluru: Hours after the Supreme Court allowed passive euthanasia on Friday, the circle of relatives of a throat and neck cancer patient from Bengaluru approached his oncologist with a plea: “Can his demise be hastened within the gentle of the apex courtroom judgment?”
Doctors at HCG Cancer Hospital in Sampangiram Nagar, however, counselled the patient’s family members — including his youngsters — that he was in an altered state of awareness and now not comatose.
“The judgment has to be interpreted very moderately. In the absence of a living will and when the individual isn't comatose but ‘terminally unwell’, such requests from the patient’s circle of relatives should be handled moderately via counselling them. The circle of relatives has misunderstood passive euthanasia as active euthanasia. We can’t hasten his demise and induce coma. The circle of relatives is very disturbed,” stated Dr U S Vishal Rao, head and neck oncologist at HCG who handled the case.
“Passive euthanasia will have to now not be unsuitable for hastening demise. It simplest means that no active intervention is made to lend a hand a patient live when s/he is in an irreversible comatose state,” Dr Rao defined. According to the doctor, there is a moral, scientific and felony perspective to euthanasia, which has to be tested moderately within the wake of the verdict.
‘Passive Euthanasia is the improper time period’
Doctors in Bengaluru recommend excessive care while addressing issues raised via the Supreme Court ruling.
“It’s the fitting judgment but wrongly worded. There is nothing referred to as passive euthanasia anywhere on the earth. Ideally, the Supreme Court will have to have stated it's allowing chickening out and withholding of life toughen system, as according to the Indian Council of Medical Research terminology document,” Dr Stanley Macadam, a palliative care specialist and former director of Bangalore Baptist Hospital, instructed TOI.
“We don’t paintings in opposition to hastening demise. It’s about chickening out the life toughen system to permit natural demise. We don’t recommend passive euthanasia and the verdict has been wrongly worded. It can confuse patients,” concurred Dr Prabha Seshachar, senior marketing consultant, department of palliative drugs, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.
Calling it a landmark verdict, Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, chairman, Manipal Hospitals, stated, “Living will is what is being practised in the USA for decades now. But it will have to be applied as it should be and judiciously. We will consult with our felony staff how it will have to be taken ahead in case a patient’s circle of relatives makes a request.”
She had sought euthanasia in 2010
Davanagere: Karibasamma, 79, had petitioned the Karnataka High Court in 2010 in search of euthanasia but her petition was rejected.
Suffering from diabetes, arthritis and slip disc, Karibasamma, who now lives in an old-age home in Davanagere, stated she was elated. “Though I’m satisfied, I nonetheless have to read the stipulations laid down within the courtroom order,” she stated.
The prime courtroom had referred her to Nimhans. Several social activists too had impleaded themselves within the petition opposing her plea. The courtroom famous Nimhans’ findings pronouncing her “backbone is customary” and she has “no psychological dysfunction”, while taking out her petition on September 12, 2012.
The Nimhans report stated that Karibasamma refused to undergo additional investigation and drugs, and suggested she be supplied psychiatric counselling. She stated she had written a three-page letter to the Supreme Court and Union government on December 12, 2017, in search of their intervention in permitting euthanasia.
“A panel of retired judges and medical doctors will have to be set up to communicate to patients at the demise mattress and make a decision on allowing euthanasia,” she stated.
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