Narayan and Iravati Lavate hold a photograph that taken was five years after their wedding at their Thakurdwar home. Pics/Atul Kamble

It's not hard to locate Narayan and Iravati Lavate's residence in the narrow bylanes of Thakurdwar. Any shopkeeper will guide you. In the last three days, the men admit to have guided many a media person to their first floor flat at Laxmibai Chawl. Last month, the elderly couple wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking permission for "active euthanasia", defined as the intentional act of causing the death of a patient experiencing great suffering. Except, here, the couple is healthy. In his letter, 87-year-old Narayan Lavate, says he does not have children and they don't suffer from any major health problem, but "we are of no use to society now and cannot contribute anything". His reason for writing to the President is because if the constitutional power to pardon life sentences lies with him, so should also the power to allow "right to death".