The death of Aruna Shanbaug, the face of euthanasia debate in India, who remained in permanent vegetative state for over four decades after suffering a brutal sexual attack should bring tears to many eyes.
It is unjust that the longest living comatose patient had to endure never ending pain, stress and trauma after the shameful act and was made to live on ventilator support.
Is it not time that the law comes to the rescue of such patients and help them choose between life, dignity and death. Whose life is it anyway? It is a travesty of justice that the man who perpetrated the shameful act is now free, working as a sweeper in a hospital.
N J Ravi Chander, Bengaluru
