India, March 28 -- Harish Rana, an Indian youth who spent over a decade in a vegetative state, became the first case where the Supreme Court of the country allowed withdrawal of life support under passive euthanasia rules.

Days later, in Spain, Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old paralysed after an assault, died by legal euthanasia after a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so.

Castillo struggled with psychiatric illness since she was a teenager, and tried taking her life twice, she said, the second time after she was sexually assaulted, according to an Associated Press report. The injuries she suffered from her second suicide attempt in 2022 left her unable to use her legs and in a wheelchair.

Her death reig...