The Supreme Court’s decision to streamline the processes of withdrawal of or withholding medical treatment has elevated the concept of dignified end-of-life care and provided hope for organ donation in India, particularly after circulatory death.Organ donation after determination of circulatory death (DCD) implies organ retrieval shortly after cardiac arrest in the period during which the organs remain viable without blood circulation.106243563 Leading medical and organ donation experts have said the development is a culmination of nurse Aruna Shanbaug’s case which prompted a discussion on passive euthanasia in India in 2011, formally legalizing it in 2018 and led to streamlining and easing of procedures involved in a dignified end-of-life care in 2023.Shanbaug spent 42 years in a vegetative state at KEM Hospital in Mumbai after she was raped and strangled….Readmore