Abstract
Euthanasia has received increasing attention in both academic and public debates as one of the most controversial issues. The aim of the present study is twofold: (1) to explore the Loopholes of euthanasia; (2) to analyse the need of euthanasia in a country like India. This study focused on four distinct thematic areas that characterised the scientific debate on euthanasia: (1) moral values, in terms of religious, philosophical, and social implications of an individual's decision to die; (2) professional ethics, in terms of health and social workers' legal responsibility in death assistance; (3) end-of-life care, in terms of medical options provided to support individuals nearing death; and (4) patient's right to healthcare, in terms of access to palliative care and improved quality of dying. The euthanasia discourse over the last decades appears to be characterised by two main dimensions: (1) the increasing trend of social legitimacy and acceptability of euthanasia over time, which has shifted from ethical to healthcare issues; and (2) the curvilinear temporal trend about the request/provision process in euthanasia, which has shifted from ethical to healthcare issues. The results suggests that euthanasia is a need of the society and we can’t refrain an individual from his
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