What a story out of India where euthanasia is still illegal! A young nurse is attacked, raped and strangled in 1973 and is considered brain dead since then. Amazingly her attacker was sentenced to only 7 years in prison.She is in a persistent vegetative state PVS per the article. At one point they say that she is being force fed by nurses twice a day. But further in the article, it states that she accepts food voluntarily and makes facial expressions and responds to commands by making sounds. This does not sound like force feeding to me or a persistent vegetative state. No mention of family but the person making the official plea to end her life by stopping her food is a journalist by the name of Pinki Virani who wrote a book about her.
"India's Supreme Court has directed three doctors to examine the medical condition of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973."They expect a decision next month.
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