India, Aug. 24 -- A two-day multidisciplinary event is being held in Bengaluru on August 23-24 to draw people's attention to the virtues and, indeed, the need for end of life care, and sensitise them to the Advance Medical Directive (AMD). Titled Good To Go Death Literacy Festival, it brings together medical professionals, lawyers, storytellers and members of NGOs to discuss the nuances of occasions when people wish to refuse to receive life-sustaining treatment if they become terminally ill.

This provision follows from the Supreme Court (SC) judgment on the right to die with dignity, endorsed through Article 21, and invoked through the famous Common Cause petition in 2018, where the apex court ruled that a Living Will is a fundamental r...