India, March 11 -- At the core of the right to life sits the right to dignity. To live with dignity is to retain, for as long as possible, the sovereign territory of the self. Autonomy over that life, that body, in the absence of criminality, is hewed into this very right. In a landmark decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court made the difficult adjudication in a case where that life, in any meaningful sense of that word, has already departed. The top court allowed passive euthanasia for a 32-year-old man who has remained in a permanent vegetative state for more than a decade, while also laying down safeguards and procedural guidelines to regulate such decisions in the future. Delivering separate but concurring opinions, the bench of Just...