In Pictures: Aruna Shanbaug’s Last Rites, Performed By KEM Staff

In the end, it was the doctors and nurses of KEM Hospital who performed the last rites of Arun Shanbaug.

In the end, it was the people who cared for Aruna Shanbaug for 42 years who performed her last rites. The KEM Hospital nurse who was cared for from 1973 after a brutal rape left her in a vegetative state breathed her last at 8:30 am in Mumbai on Monday.

In 2011, even the Supreme Court recognised the KEM staff as her real family when a petition argued for her right to be euthanised.

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