Legalization Of Euthanasia

"The right to live of which Article 21 speaks of can be said to bring in its trail the right not to live a forced life- P. Rathinam v. Union of India AIR 1994 SC 1844"

Legalizing euthanasia also has concern on the type of euthanasia. There are said to be different classifications of euthanasia, they are as follows "voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary". These three are the said common classifications of Euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is that with reference to a person's right to die. It speaks on a right of an individual to end their own life by their own wish. Involuntary is that where the decision to end the life of an individual is decided by other people. Since some chances are there for misusing this, euthanasia is opposed by many. But still to benefit the terminally-ill people who really wish to use this many scholars support this. Passive and active are the further classifications of voluntary euthanasia.¹ The clear difference between active