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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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