Indian Officials Respond To Euthanasia Request

Indian authorities have responded with support to the parents seeking euthanasia for their two crippled children.

Euthanasia case: Government offers financial, medical help

Responding to the application of the couple who sought euthanasia for their two children who have been paralysed for years, the district administration and NGOs have come forward to help the couple get proper medication and financial aid for the kids.

Udaipur collector, Hemant Gera after receiving the application by Ramila Devi, the children's mother sent a three-member team to the village to know the plight of the family.

"Our team visited them and assured them that we will provide them all possible help and requested them not request for euthanasia. I have also sanctioned a disability pension of Rs 500 each for the two kids Bhumika Kumari (8) and Tanish (4). Likewise, the family which is already below poverty line (BPL) will get a house under CM Awas Yojna," said Hemant Gera while talking to TOI on Sunday. more

India: More In Poverty Call For Euthanasia

We’re seeing this more and more in the developing world: Requests for euthanasia as a means of escaping extreme poverty and suffering. It’s popping up especially in India after some high-profile requests for euthanasia a few years ago.

Parents of paralysed children want euthanasiaUdaipur: The parents of two children paralysed by illness have appealed for mercy killing of their children because they are simply too poor to take care of them or to get them treated.
 The couple, who live in Udaipur's Sallada village, wrote to the District Collector through their gram sabha out of sheer desperation after their second child, who is four, was paralysed. The older one, eight-year-old Bhumika, too was paralysed two years after birth.
 "We wrote to the collector, asking that either the children be helped in some way or they be allowed to die," mother Ramila Teli said. "We can't bear their suffering anymore." more

India: More On The Poor Asking To Be Euthanized

Here’s more on the current weave of people asking to be euthanized in India because they are leading miserable lives.

They sought euthanasia, were offered jail instead by officials

They lost their parents to a road accident, almost one year ago and are currently living in a dilapidated two-room kuchcha house, which is on the verge of collapse due to incessant rain. This is the story of 14-year-old Nafees and his five siblings of Kannauj's Bisapur village, who asked for government help or euthanasia, but were offered jail instead. more

India: Poor Requesting Euthanasia To End Poverty-Stricken Lives

We’re starting to see more and more of this: As people in developing countries learn about euthanasia, they are requesting it as a way of out of the misery of poverty and hopelessness. How terribly sad.

Penury drives youth to seek euthanasia

Facing penury, a youth and his siblings today approached the district authorities here with a strange plea -- that of euthanasia. more