Euthanasia encompasses various dimensions, from active (introducing something to cause death) to passive (withholding treatment or supportive measures); voluntary (consent) to involuntary (consent from guardian) and physician assisted (where physician's prescribe the medicine and patient or the third party administers the medication to cause death).Euthanasia is the practice of killing somebody without pain who wants to die, if he/she is suffering from an incurable disease. There are mainly two types of Euthanasia: (1) Active Euthanasia (2) Passive Euthanasia. Active Euthanasia: Active Euthanasia is one where death of the patient is caused by an act. A person deliberately causes the death of the patient in active euthanasia. Passive Euthanasia: In Passive Euthanasia death is brought by an omission. Here the patient is allowed to die by withdrawing treatment on him/her. ‘Right-to-die’ supporters argue that people who have an incurable, degenerative, disabling or debilitating condition should be allowed to die in dignity. This argument is further defended for those, who have chronic debilitating illness even though it is not terminal such as severe mental illness. Majority of such petitions are filed by the sufferers or family members or their caretakers. Euthanasia opposers argue that if we embrace ‘the right to death with dignity’, people with incurable and debilitating illnesses will be disposed from our civilised society. This has got a fillip in the recent Honourable Supreme Court Judgment in the Aruna Shaunbag case.