Zareer Masani lived and died on his own terms
Venkat Iyer
Zareer Masani, who passed away peacefully in Switzerland on August 9, 2024, clearly subscribed to German philosopher and critic Friedrich Nietzsche’s view that "one should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” His death has the potential to rekindle the debate on a contentious cause which his distinguished late father, Minoo Masani, had espoused, without much success, in the 1980s and 1990s, and which still remains taboo in many societies, namely, voluntary assisted dying (or euthanasia, as it is more commonly called). There is a certain poignancy to the fact that the city where Zareer chose......