Siddhi Sharma, B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), GLAU, Mathura ABSTRACT This paper begins with a question that the law has not yet properly answered: what happens to a patient who is terminally ill, fully conscious, and in daily pain but has no machine to switch off? In March 2026, the Supreme Court of India permitted passive euthanasia for a real individual for the very first time. The judgment in Harish Rana v. Union of India was a watershed. But it also threw into sharp relief a gap that has existed...