Simplified Legal Procedure for End-of-life Decisions in India: A New Dawn in the Care of the Dying?

Recent amendments to the onerous legal procedure laid down in the Landmark Supreme Court Judgment Common Cause vs The Union of India have aroused widespread interest. The new procedural guidelines of January 2023 appear workable and should ease ethical decision-making toward the end-of-life in India...

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Autores principales: Mani, Raj Kumar, Simha, Srinagesh, Gursahani, Roopkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37214121
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24464
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description Recent amendments to the onerous legal procedure laid down in the Landmark Supreme Court Judgment Common Cause vs The Union of India have aroused widespread interest. The new procedural guidelines of January 2023 appear workable and should ease ethical decision-making toward the end-of-life in India. This commentary provides the backdrop to the evolution of legal provisions for advance directives, withdrawal, and withholding decisions in terminal care. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mani RK, Simha S, Gursahani R. Simplified Legal Procedure for End-of-life Decisions in India: A New Dawn in the Care of the Dying? Indian J Crit Care Med 2023;27(5):374–376.
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spelling pubmed-101966462023-05-20 Simplified Legal Procedure for End-of-life Decisions in India: A New Dawn in the Care of the Dying? Mani, Raj Kumar Simha, Srinagesh Gursahani, Roopkumar Indian J Crit Care Med Commentary Recent amendments to the onerous legal procedure laid down in the Landmark Supreme Court Judgment Common Cause vs The Union of India have aroused widespread interest. The new procedural guidelines of January 2023 appear workable and should ease ethical decision-making toward the end-of-life in India. This commentary provides the backdrop to the evolution of legal provisions for advance directives, withdrawal, and withholding decisions in terminal care. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mani RK, Simha S, Gursahani R. Simplified Legal Procedure for End-of-life Decisions in India: A New Dawn in the Care of the Dying? Indian J Crit Care Med 2023;27(5):374–376. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2023-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10196646/ /pubmed/37214121 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24464 Text en Copyright © 2023; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2023 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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