India’s Supreme Court consults on right to die for terminally ill people

India’s Supreme Court issued notices on 16 July to the country’s state governments for their responses on euthanasia, calling for a national debate on the issue and giving them eight weeks to respond.

A constitution bench, comprising Chief Justice RM Lodha and Justices JS Khehar, J Chelameswar, A Sikri, and Rohinton F Nariman, heard a petition filed by an Indian non-governmental organisation, Common Cause, and agreed to examine the issue that the …