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LIVING WILL Advanced Medical Directives

On 18th January,2023 the Supreme Court passed final judgment on the "Living Will", Advance Medical Directive, on agreeing to modify its 2018 guidelines on "Living Will" , an Advance Medical Directive on end of life treatment. The judgment recognised that a terminally ill incurable patient can refuse the medical treatment undergoing life support like ventilation holding the right to live with dignity and smoothening the process of natural dying in a peaceful transition of the soul from one consciousness to another consciousness.             I have been privileged to volunteer in the field of Palliative Care since my beloved wife with metastatic cancer had left me behind. I have realised and can feel the suffering and pain of a person in a ventilator or a life support machine consequently the process of dying not in a peaceful dignified manner. This motivates me to have legal procedure of preparing "Living Will", an Advance Medical Directive. In this pr...