I just read in the papers about Indian Supreme Court permitting passive euthanasia for a person in persistent vegitative state. That is, medical treatments and artificial life support means can be withheld - leading to death.
It reminded me of the Terri Schiavo case of about 6 years ago, when a similar situation and public debate had ensued in California, and the court there, despite strong oppositions and public opinions, had ruled in favour of euthanasia. (One of the factors affecting this decision had been the consideration that the patient would have wanted the same.)
It took six additional years for India to arrive at the same state of practical (and moral) sanity!
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