Euthanasia, although not unknown to us as Indians, triggered a heated debate in the country with the brutal incident of Aruna Shanbaug who was battered, sodomized and strangulated by the ward boy in Mumbai's King George Memorial hospital. Moved by her comatose state, Pinki Virani ? biographer of Aruna moved the courts to end Aruna's unbearable agony, pressing for her right to die a dignified death. Besides pinki's publication entitled