TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Legal Rulings on Suicide in India and Implications for the Right to Die
JO  - Asian philosophy: an international journal of the philosophical traditions of the east
A1  - Bilimoria, P.
SP  - 159
EP  - 180
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
N2  - In this paper I am concerned to address the question of voluntary or self-willed death from two distinct positions--a particular community's socio-religious practice (viz, Jaina sallekhanā) and as the matter stands in law (penal code, constitution, judicial wisdom, etc.) in India--in the light of the recent move by a bench of its apex court striking down the penal code section proscribing suicide. I also wish to draw out some implications of these deliberations for the beneficence of medical practice and related bio-ethical ramifications in the Indian context. © 1995, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0955-2367
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09552369508575418
ID  - ref1
ER  -