India’s Supreme Court Will Decide if This Man is Starved to Death

The Supreme Court of India now holds the fate of a single young man and, with him, the moral direction of the country. If the justices authorize the withdrawal of food and fluids from 31-year-old Harish Rana, they will not only decide how one life ends. They will create India’s first concrete case of court-sanctioned “passive euthanasia” under the Common Cause framework and set a precedent for every similarly vulnerable person who cannot speak in their own defense.

Common Cause is the 2018...