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Church hails India Supreme Court for reaffirming ban on euthanasia: ‘Extremely happy’

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New Delhi, India, Aug 22, 2024 / 16:00 pm

Catholic leaders in India have lauded the country’s high court for rejecting a plea for "passive euthanasia" from the parents of a 30-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state for 11 years.

Commenting on the August 20 verdict issued by a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Dhananjaya Chandrachud, Archbishop Raphy Manjaly of the Archdiocese of Agra, the chairman of the doctrinal commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, said: “We would like to congratulate the Court for its unambiguous verdict while calling for support for the family facing a serious crisis.” 

“We are extremely happy that the sacredness of life has been upheld by the court,” the prelate told CNA on Aug 22.

In 2021 the Delhi High Court rejected a plea of the parents for euthanasia for their son. “The facts indicate that the petitioner is not being kept alive mechanically and is able to sustain himself without any external aid,” the court said. 

When the lawyer for the distressed parents of the 30-year old man — who fell from a hostel balcony in 2013 while studying for engineering and had been comatose since then — told the Supreme Court that the family had sold their house to pay for their son’s treatment, the chief justice admitted the court was “moved by the plight of the parents.” 

“Can some alternative be introduced?” Chandrachud asked. “Both parents are aging. Is there any facility where [the patient] can be lodged, and the expenses covered? He is suffering from bed sores."

Yet the court “cannot permit passive euthanasia as he is not on a life support system,” the justice said. The patient is fed through a nasal tube.

In 2018 the Supreme Court said Indian law “prohibits anyone, including a physician, from causing the death of another person by administering any lethal drug, even if the objective is to relieve the patient from pain and suffering.” 

“Passive” euthanasia, meanwhile, is allowed in cases where doctors remove patients from mechanical life support. The removal of nasal feeding tubes is not allowed under that rule.

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Archbishop Manjaly noted that “while taking a clear pro-life stance, the judgment acknowledges that there is definitely a crisis.” 

“The suffering family cannot be pushed into a corner. We are happy that the court insists on community support for the distraught family,” he pointed out.

The prelate of the Taj Mahal city of Agra also recounted how Aruna Shanbaug , a nurse brutalized by a janitor while on hospital duty in 1973, remained in vegetative condition for 41 years with the nursing community in the Mumbai hospital taking care of her until her death in 2015.

“Society needs such compassion to care for the needy. The Church stands for that,” Manjaly said.

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Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, said last night that searches had finished for the day and would resume on Thursday.

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The search of the Bayesian superyacht wreckage was called off overnight after five bodies were found.

Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, said last night that searches had finished for the day and would resume on Thursday. Mr Cocina confirmed that five bodies had been found, but only four recovered - with one person still missing.

As reported by the Mirror , search teams made the tragic discovery of tech mogul Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah on Wednesday after finally breaking in to the cabin of the Bayesian. The boat sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a freak tornado on Monday morning.

The Chief of Civil Protection later said the two bodies were that of the father and daughter, before announcing two more corpses had been recovered. The freak incident came as the 59-year-old Brit was enjoying a victory trip to celebrate winning a US fraud trial - and Hannah had just landed a place to study English at Oxford.

Two bodies were brought ashore shortly before 4pm local time yesterday and were later confirmed as the pair. Three further body bags were transported from the wreck site and taken away under blue lights but their identities remain unknown.

It means one yacht guest remains missing. Still unaccounted for are Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy and American citizens Chris Morvillo and his jewellery designer wife Neda. The four guests, plus the tycoon and teen daughter, had been missing since Monday, with specialist divers scrambling to access the boat in the hope air pockets in the cabins could keep them breathing.

The £30 million Bayesian went down in just 60 seconds after being hit off the coast of Porticello on Monday morning. It was carrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers. Earlier a doctor treating the hero mum who saved her baby in the horror said she was sleeping on deck with the tot when disaster struck.

Charlotte Emsley, 36, survived the sinking of the superyacht by reportedly holding her baby above the waves. It emerged as inspectors from the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) arrived on scene on Wednesday.

The MAIB is looking into what happened because the yacht Bayesian was flying a British flag. One expert told the Telegraph authorities are investigating whether hatches left open by crew members contributed to the sinking. The wreckage of Bayesian is resting on the seabed 50 metres deep.

Fire crews said they accessed the vessel through natural entrances, without making openings. And the Italian coastguard said remotely-controlled underwater robots were assisting the search. The devices can remain underwater for at least two hours at a time, providing much-needed help to diving teams who can only search the wreck in 12-minute intervals.

Of the 22 passengers and crew on board, 15 – including Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares – were rescued after escaping onto a lifeboat. Survivors are recuperating at a hotel complex in Porticello, where authorities are gathering witness statements.

Ms Bacares has reportedly been joined by the couple's elder daughter who was not on board the yacht. We earlier revealed the mum-of-two was in a "state of shock and sadness" as she anxiously waited for news. She has reportedly been joined by the couple's elder daughter who was not on board the yacht.

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The ship's captain was yesterday confirmed as “well respected” seafarer James Cutfield, 51. The New-Zealander earlier said crew members “didn’t see [the storm] coming.” He is recovering in hospital with his wife by his side.

More of the vessel's rescued crew members were named by the Italian Coastguard on Tuesday, with Leo Eppel and South African nationals Leah Randall and Katja Chicken all confirmed as having been on board. A body recovered at the scene of the sinking on Monday was that of Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working on the superyacht.

Gareth Williams, a friend of the chef, told the BBC : "I can talk for everyone that knew him when I say he was a well-loved, kind human being with a calm spirit." Another pal, Eli Fuller, added Mr Thomas was "friends with everybody,” and was "always positive" and "sought-after" in his profession.

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Mr Lynch – once dubbed "Britain’s Bill Gates"– formed his first firm in 1996 with a £2,000 loan, and it morphed into software giant Autonomy. Just months ago, the head honcho - worth around £500 million - was cleared of fraud in the US over the 2011 sale of that firm to Hewlett-Packard.

Earlier Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, west London, where Hannah Lynch was a pupil, said its "thoughts are with their family and everyone involved." In a separate tragedy, Stephen Chamberlain – the former vice president of finance at Autonomy and Mr Lynch's co-defendant – died after being hit by a car while out jogging in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

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The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accused of not disclosing a yacht trip to Russia and a private helicopter flight to a palace in President Vladimir Putin’s hometown, among a slew of other gifts and loans from businessman Harlan Crow .

Buried on page 14 of a letter that two Democratic senators sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, in which they urged Garland to appoint a special counsel to probe Thomas, was an astonishing list of dozens of “likely undisclosed gifts and income” from Crow, Crow’s affiliated companies, and “other donors.”

In the letter, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) said Thomas, one of the court’s staunchly conservative justices , even may have committed tax fraud and violated other federal laws by “secretly” accepting the gifts and income potentially worth millions.

“The Senate is not a prosecutorial body, and the Supreme Court has no fact-finding function of its own, making the executive role all the more important if there is ever to be any complete determination of the facts,” reads the letter requesting the appointment of a special prosecutor. 

“We do not make this request lightly,” said the letter. 

The list of potentially secret gifts also includes a loan of more than $267,000 provided by Thomas’ close friend Anthony Welters, the yacht trip to Russia from the Baltics, and the helicopter ride to Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg. ProPublica first reported last year on the existence of extensive undisclosed gifts and lavish trips from Crow.

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Additionally, Justice Thomas is accused of not disclosing tuitions for his grandnephew, free lodging, real estate transactions, and home renovations. The action escalates Democratic senators’ efforts to hold Thomas accountable for perceived ethics controversies. 

According to the senators, Thomas’ conduct could violate the Ethics in Government Act, which requires officials like Supreme Court justices to file annual reports disclosing gifts and income accepted from outside sources.

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Since 2023, two Senate committees have been looking into the 1991 loan from Welters that was connected to Thomas’ purchase of a luxury motor home. Welters previously responded to a New York Times request for comment on the loan only to say that it was “satisfied.”

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Billionaires are seemingly always seeking to top one another and themselves when it comes to buying jaw-droppingly expensive and ridiculous objects. In 2011, an anonymous Malaysian man, rumored to be business tycoon Robert Kuok, may have moved to the head of the pack when he allegedly bought the hilariously named History Supreme, a yacht made of such materials as solid gold, platinum, meteoric stone, and the bone of a tyrannosaurus rex. According to Business Insider , Kuok is a notoriously private self-made billionaire who heads the Kuok Group, a multinational conglomerate that owns assorted businesses around the world. When he bought the History Supreme for $4.8 billion, he reportedly spent a third of his $12.8 billion fortune. According to Forbes , in 2021 the 97-year-old is the 171st richest person in the world with a net worth of $12.6 billion.

As reported by the Daily Mail , the History Supreme is made up of over 100,000 kg (that's over 220,000 pounds) of platinum and gold; the entire base of the boat is wrapped in solid gold and the precious metals are used throughout, while the aforementioned meteoric stone and dinosaur bone make up a "wall feature" in the master bedroom. Additional features, per Jetset Magazine , include a luxury liquor bottle adorned with a rare 18.5 carat diamond, a custom iPhone encrusted in 500 diamonds, including two special interchangable home button diamonds, and a panoramic Aquavista wall aquarium made from 24-carat gold, presumably setting a new standard when it comes to panoramic yacht aquariums.

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The History Supreme yacht is the handiwork of British designer Stuart Hughes who per his website has also made such collectibles for the ultrarich as the world's most expensive suit, the world's most expensive iPhone, the world's most expensive model car, and a solid gold Rolls Royce Phantom. According to Jetset Magazine , the "anonymous Malaysian business man" (probably Robert Kuok, shown above) commissioned Hughes via a friend in his yachting circle; Hughes never met the person for whom the yacht was intended, but was given completely  free reign in terms of the ship's design and construction. The project took three years to complete. 

To add to the History Supreme's mystique, some people don't believe it exists at all. Autoevolution says it "was never real, it was never made and no, it does not exist," noting that Italian company Baia Yachts issued a statement claiming the pictures of History Supreme's interior on Hughes' website were stolen from their site and used without permission. MoneyInc and YachtHarbor also lay out the case for the entire story being a hoax, with MoneyInc noting that at one point Kuok deconstructed his Hong Kong mansion into several smaller homes to avoid an ostentatious display of wealth, which makes his commission of the world's most luxurious yacht seem unlikely. Furthermore, as Kuok is known for staying out of the public eye, perhaps Hughes chose him as the supposed customer because he is hard to reach and therefore will not confirm or deny the yacht's existence. The History Supreme section of Hugh's website remains intact. 

Did the Eclipse get eclipsed?

Before the possible existence of the History Supreme, the title of world's most luxurious yacht belonged to the Eclipse (shown above). Per the Sydney Morning Herald , it was purchased in 2009 by Russian business tycoon Roman Abramovich for $590 million and includes two helipads, a movie theater, a sports complex, its own mini-submarine, and a missile defense system. Created by German shipbuilding company Blohm + Voss, an anonymous Russian yachting expert described it as a "big mansion on water ." When asked why it looked like a military frigate, the expert replied "It's a trend. Private yachts look like military boats these days. The yacht is a statement for many people. It's a statement about power." For those who wanted to try out that sort of morally dubious power without committing, the Eclipse was at one point available for commission for up to 30 guests and 75 crew members via SuperYachtsMonaco at $2 million per week, as reported by Business Insider . It's no longer listed on the site.

Per Robb Report , the world's largest yacht since its construction finished in 2013 has been the Azzam, which comes in at 592 feet and six inches long and can travel at a speed up to 30 knots. Built by yacht company Lürssen , it was commissioned by United Arab Emirates president Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (per Super Yacht Fan ) and has an interior described as sophisticated and luxe. 

I cinque yacht più costosi del mondo, la classifica

Gli yacht più costosi al mondo incarnano lusso estremo, con oro, tecnologie avanzate e design esclusivi, diventando simboli galleggianti di potere

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Nel mondo esclusivo della nautica di lusso, gli yacht non rappresentano semplicemente un mezzo per attraversare gli oceani, ma sono veri e propri monumenti galleggianti al potere e alla ricchezza . Qui, ogni metro quadrato non è solo progettato per il comfort, ma per ostentare uno status che va ben oltre l’immaginabile. Tra materiali preziosi come l’oro e sistemi di sicurezza militari, queste imbarcazioni incarnano una fusione perfetta tra tecnologia, design e sfarzo. In questo viaggio nelle acque più dorate, esploreremo i cinque yacht più costosi al mondo.

History Supreme – 4,4 miliardi di euro

Lo History Supreme è lo yacht che lascia senza parole, non solo per il suo prezzo ma per i materiali che lo compongono: oro massiccio e platino per un totale di 100.000 kg. Realizzato dal designer britannico Stuart Hughes, questo gioiello di 30 metri racchiude particolari che sembrano usciti da una fiaba dell’eccesso, come una parete fatta con frammenti di meteorite e una scultura ottenuta da ossa di dinosauro. Più che una barca, una celebrazione dell’opulenza portata all’estremo. A confronto, quello di Mark Zuckerberg sembra una normalissima barca.

Questo yacht sfoggia una gamma di dettagli che sfidano l’immaginazione: il ponte, l’ancora, i corrimano e persino la sala da pranzo sono interamente realizzati in metalli preziosi. Il fiore all’occhiello è la cabina principale, le cui pareti sono impreziosite da pietra meteoritica e un frammento autentico di osso di dinosauro T-Rex​.

Eclipse – 1,4 miliardi di euro

Se il nome Eclipse non vi dice niente, basta guardare chi lo possiede: il magnate russo Roman Abramovich . Con i suoi 162 metri di lunghezza, questa mega-imbarcazione rappresenta un trionfo di sicurezza e comfort, dotata di due eliporti, una discoteca privata, piscine, e persino un sottomarino. La sicurezza è curata nei minimi dettagli: vetri antiproiettile e sistemi di rilevazione missilistica. Abramovich non ha solo comprato un gioiello del mare, ma una vera e propria fortezza galleggiante.

Flying Fox – 500 milioni di euro

Il Flying Fox, lungo 136 metri, è uno dei superyacht più costosi e lussuosi al mondo. Tra le sue caratteristiche, spiccano una spa di 400 metri quadrati, una piscina di 12 metri e ben 11 mini-appartamenti. Avvistato spesso nelle acque italiane, come a Capri, è un simbolo del lusso contemporaneo. Gli interni offrono una combinazione di relax e raffinatezza mai vista su una nave.

Azzam – 554 milioni di euro

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Con i suoi 180 metri di lunghezza, Azzam è uno degli yacht più imponenti e veloci mai costruiti, e il suo costo supera lo yacht a forma di cigno . Di proprietà della famiglia reale degli Emirati Arabi Uniti, questo gigante del mare può raggiungere una velocità di oltre 30 nodi, grazie alla combinazione di tecnologie all’avanguardia e un design ultra-elegante firmato da Nauta Yachts. Gli interni, progettati da Christophe Leoni, sono un omaggio al lusso più raffinato, senza compromessi.

Dubai – 369 milioni di euro

Commissionato inizialmente dal principe Jefri Bolkiah del Brunei e oggi di proprietà dello sceicco Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , il Dubai è un altro colosso dei mari. Con i suoi 162 metri, si distingue per i dettagli architettonici, come la spettacolare scala centrale e la piscina con piastrelle decorative che sembrano opere d’arte. Gli interni, arricchiti da materiali pregiati, offrono il massimo della sontuosità, rendendo questo yacht una delle imbarcazioni più ammirate nelle acque di tutto il mondo.

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