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Aruna Shanbaug was sexually assaulted 36 years ago by the ward boy of the hospital, where she used to work. Currently, she is suffering from a brain drain and not able to speak, hear and see. The doctors who have been treating her since the last 36 years said that Aruna Shanbaug is brain dead and there is no chance of her getting recovered. She has been lying unconscious in a Mumbai Hospital for the last 36 years. Should Aruna be allowed to die or be left is such a state?

Chantal Sebire is a French woman whose request for legal euthanasia was rejected by the high court of Dyon, France. Sebire was found dead on March 20, 2008, two days after the court made its ruling.Sebire, a former school teacher, suffered from Esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare, painful and disfiguring facial tumor disorder. Reportedly, her extensive facial tumors took her sight, as well as her senses of smell and taste. According to Sebire, she endured hours-long attacks of excruciating pain.

Eluana Englaro (November 25, 1970 – February 9, 2009) was an Italian woman from Lecco, who entered a persistent vegetative state on January 18, 1992, following a car accident, and subsequently became the focus of a court battle between supporters and opponents of euthanasia. Shortly after Englaro had been fed with a probe, her father requested to have her feeding tube removed and to allow her to die "naturally". The authorities initially refused his request, but this decision was later reversed after seventeen years.

Ramón Sampedro (5 January 1943, Porto do Son – 12 January 1998) was a ship fisherman from Galicia, Spain, who became a quadriplegic in a diving accident at the age of 25

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