Monday, December 13, 2004

Your Honour, please let me die!: "HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old, who is on life support system, has moved court for mercy killing."

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"Terminally-ill Venkatesh's mother is with him in his plea. She was the one who moved court, which in turn appointed a committee to study the situation that visited the hospital for a spot assessment. It will report back to the court. The committee's brief: to study if Venkatesh's organs can be harvested when he's on life support."

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"In this procedure, a patient's organs are taken out within two to five minutes of life support being removed."

(Via TOI - India.)