Death with Dignity Act

Mahatma Gandhi, the great proponent of non-violence, opined thus about euthanasia in the October 1928 Gujarati weekly Navjivan: “…Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary under certain imperative circumstances to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer".