After 13 years of being in a vegetative state, 32-year-old Harish Rana has been granted permission for ‘passive euthanasia’ by the Supreme Court. On Saturday, he was transferred to AIIMS, Delhi, where a medical team will gradually remove his life support systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harish\u2019s life took a tragic turn in 2013 when he fell from the fourth floor of his engineering college hostel, suffering severe head injuries. He survived but remained completely unresponsive, sustained only by tracheostomy and gastrojejunostomy tubes. For over a decade, his parents, Ashok Rana and his mother, bore the immense emotional and financial burden of his care. Fearing for his future after their passing, they fought a long legal battle for their son’s right to a dignified death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A heart-wrenching video of his departure from Ghaziabad has gone viral, showing his parents weeping as they begged for his forgiveness. The Supreme Court’s verdict finally brings a tragic closure to a family\u2019s decade-long prayer and sacrifice, raising profound questions about the dignity of life and the mercy of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After 13 years of being in a vegetative state, 32-year-old Harish Rana has been granted permission for ‘passive euthanasia’ by the Supreme Court. On Saturday, he was transferred to AIIMS, Delhi, where a medical team will gradually remove his life support systems. Harish\u2019s life took a tragic turn in 2013 when he fell from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"\n