NEW DELHI - Back in December 2020, Dr Nikhil Datar pledged to donate his organs and hopefully save lives even after his death. He took another step recently – this time to ensure his death is as painless and dignified as possible.
“One of the offshoots of advances in medical care is the possibility of prolonging someone’s death meaninglessly,” Dr Datar told The Straits Times. “This severely compromises a dying person’s dignity. I don’t want to be stuck in that situation but to pass away happily, smoothly and in as pain-free a manner as possible.”
“There’s a lack of knowledge even within the system itself about what needs to be done,” noted Dr Dhvani Mehta, a lawyer who represented Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine in its case filed in the Supreme Court in 2019 seeking a relaxation in rules for living wills. The court has now done away with this process, allowing individuals instead to formalise such a document with attestation by public notaries or gazetted senior government officers, who are more accessible.
“Everything has a process, its pluses and minuses but that doesn’t mean we don’t have it at all,” he told ST. Dr Datar has uploaded a draft of his living will on his personal website so that others can use it to build theirs, and has been speaking about it at public fora. “It is a difficult topic for a son or a daughter to talk about to a parent in India,” he said, hoping more media reporting on living wills can help Indians broach this subject with their families.
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