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India’s Supreme Court allows first-ever passive euthanasia death

· By Al Jazeera
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India’s Supreme Court has allowed the country’s first case of passive euthanasia – withdrawal of artificial life support – for a 32-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state for more than 12 years.

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