Everyone deserves the most fundamental of rights:
The freedom to move away from suffering in an instant, painless, effortless, guaranteed, and permanent way, whenever they choose.

We were all brought into this world without our consent. No one asked to be born. Yet once here, the law refuses to give us the freedom to leave, no matter how unbearable our suffering becomes.

This means society imposes non-consensual suffering on people who want to escape it.

Every single day in India, around 450–500 people take their own lives. They don't choose peaceful or painless ways because those are denied to them. They hang themselves. They drink poison. They set themselves on fire. They drown.

These are not just statistics. These are human beings, our friends, our brothers , sisters, our neighbours.

They didn't ask to be born. Yet the law refuses them the right to leave.

A minority of people are thus forced to resort to desperate, cruel methods of exit because the State denies them a humane option to leave.

Think about it, If you do not have the right to leave suffering behind, then by the same logic, it would be legal for someone to kidnap you, lock you in a basement, and torture or rape you every day for the rest of your life, while denying you any right to demand release.

In that basement, you would be enduring intolerable pain and horror. But if society says you have no right to leave that situation, it is effectively allowing the perpetrator to do anything they want to you forever.

This is why the freedom to escape suffering is not optional. It is a fundamental human right.

It must exist at all levels of life including the ultimate level:, the right to leave life itself when it becomes a prison of suffering.

Right now, Indian law denies this basic freedom. It criminalises voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). It forces people, regardless of how unbearable (physically, emotionally, existentially) they find their lives to keep living against their will.

This is not dignity. This is not freedom. This is not compassion.

When this petition gains enough signatures, we will be filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Hon’ble Supreme Court / High Court of India.

This PIL will argue that the Constitution of India already guarantees this right under Article 21 (Right to Life with Dignity, Liberty, and Autonomy).

It will argue:
✅ That existence is initiated without consent , so the State cannot constitutionally compel its continuation when it becomes unbearable.
✅ That denying an instant, painless, guaranteed, permanent exit fundamentally negates autonomy and transforms the Right to Life into an Obligation to Endure Non-Consensual Suffering.
✅ That the absence of such an exit is equivalent to torture, slavery, or imprisonment, violating the most basic freedoms of a democratic society.
✅ That Sections 302, 304, and 306 of the IPC must be read down so they do not criminalise compassionate acts of helping people die when they explicitly request it.
✅ That this right must be accessible without arbitrary conditions like medical diagnoses, waiting periods, or mandatory counseling, just as you don’t need permission to endure suffering (physically, emotionally, existentially), you shouldn’t need permission to leave it.

 
 Legal and Constitutional Grounds in Detail
✅ Article 21: The Right to Life with Dignity must include the right to cease existence to escape non-consensual suffering. This flows directly from the fact that no one consents to birth. Bodily and existential sovereignty demands it.

✅ Article 14: Denying this right or conditioning it arbitrarily (for example, only allowing it for certain medical diagnoses) imposes unequal burdens and violates equal protection.

✅ Article 19(1)(a): Freedom of expression includes the ultimate self-determination about one’s own existence.

✅ Precedents: While the Supreme Court has affirmed dignity (Maneka Gandhi), privacy and autonomy (Puttaswamy), and passive euthanasia under limited conditions (Aruna Shanbaug, Common Cause), these do not go far enough. True dignity and autonomy mean absolute sovereignty over one’s existence.

✅ The Imperative of Exit: Without an instant, painless, guaranteed, and accessible right to exit life, existence itself becomes the potential for inescapable suffering (physically, emotionally, existentially) like being imprisoned in torture.

✅ Criminalisation = Forced Suffering: Applying IPC Sections 302, 304, and 306 to acts of voluntary assisted dying enforces non-consensual suffering, violating the core of Article 21.

✅ Non-Consensual Birth: The State cannot condone procreation (forcing existence on someone without consent) while denying any exit, thereby becoming complicit in non-consensual suffering.

✅ Rejection of Conditional Access: Any condition beyond ensuring the adult is competent (e.g., medical diagnosis, waiting periods, forced counseling) is ethically unjustifiable and constitutionally suspect.
 Such conditions are not safeguards but forms of control via delay, designed to deny or restrict access to a fundamental right by making it inaccessible when it is most needed.

 
What We’re Asking the Supreme /High Court to Do
Our PIL will ask the Hon’ble Court to:
✅ Declare that Article 21 includes the fundamental right of every competent adult to choose to end their life through voluntary active euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.
✅ Declare that denying access to such means violates Articles 14 and 21.
✅ Read down IPC Sections 302, 304, and 306 so they do not apply to compassionate assistance in dying upon explicit request.
✅ Direct the Government of India to establish (or facilitate the establishment by neutral bodies) accessible, restriction-free facilities offering instant, painless, guaranteed, dignified ways to end life—including options like dying in sleep.
✅ Ensure such facilities operate without waiting periods, mandatory counseling, or forced justifications.

 
What Happens Next
This is not about encouraging death. It is about ensuring no one is forced to endure non-consensual suffering.

When enough people sign this petition, we will file this PIL before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to demand a clear, constitutional recognition of this right and to force legal reform.

Your signature is not just symbolic. It is part of a real, legal movement to change the law.

 
Sign this petition to support the fundamental right to move away from suffering, instantly, painlessly, permanently whenever someone chooses.