SC says no to 'mercy killing' of Aruna Shanbhag

In a keenly-awaited verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea for mercy killing on behalf of a 60-year-old nurse, living in a vegetative state for the last 37 years in a Mumbai hospital after a brutal sexual assault.
Aruna Shanbhag is a nurse from Haldipur, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka in India. In 1973, while working at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, she was sexually assaulted by Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the hospital.
Here are some opinion on this verdict:

"I broke down after reading about the passionate service rendered by the KEM staff"

“She is ours, … no one can take her away from us” are the sweetest words one can hear this Women's Day. The nurses are the guardian angels proclaiming the dignity and value of life. It is a triumph of mercy over mercy killing.

  "Pinky Virani listened to her head (reason), while the staff of KEM Hospital listened to their heart (emotion, love). It was Swami Vivekananda who remarked that while judging things, we must blend our head and heart"

"The court appears to have struck a sensible balance between the choice of the right to live and the right to die. The country is extremely proud of the nurses and other members of KEM for showing that health care without humanity is worthless."