Taking the right call on an end-of-life decision is vital to provide relief to terminally-ill patients with no hope of recovery so that scarce resources are diverted to those who can be saved, says critical care specialist RK Mani, ex-president of the Indian Society Of Critical Care Medicine and lead author of the society's position paper on end-of-life and palliative care in intensive care units tells Rema Nagarajan of the urgent need for guidelines to address the issue of terminating life support. He is now chairman, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Saket City Hospital. Why do you object to the word euthanasia? Euthanasia is a very narrow definition. The term passive euthanasia...
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