2 hours agoDrama in France: The family divided over man's life divides the whole nation
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)To Vincent Lambert, 42, whose case has been placed at the centre of the debate on the right to die in France over the past decade, medical treatment is expected to end this week. He's been in venerable condition since a motorcycle accident in 2008. His family was [...]
His family has been deeply divided over medical care to be given to him. The wife requires artificial life - keeping to an end, while her parents insist that he should continue the “to live”.
The issue actually exceeded the limits of medicine, ending in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The highest European court gave the ruling of a French court, allowing it to give up artificially in life.
However, doctors did not put the plan into existence, due to concerns raised by Vincent Lambert's father, who feared there was a plan for them <x0...dugged” that. Now, a new medical team has decided to act and to remove its technological support from maintaining life after appeals have been rejected.
The case in question has resulted in extremely divisive in France, where euthanasia is legal, but doctors are allowed to place patients in deep sleep comas. About 150 supporters of his parents gathered at the hospital in the eastern city of Reims, where Lambert is currently being treated after taking into account his mother's call published on Vincent's page dedicated to “Supporting Vincent”.
Mr. President Vincent Lambert will die this week if you do nothing. You are the last and only person who can intervene in this case”, read in a letter signed by his family's lawyers, who object to the removal of equipment they artificially keep in their lives, reports “Le Figaro” “in France in 2019, no one should die of hunger and thirst”, his mother wrote.
Parents' lawyers also announced they would hand in three new appeals indictments this Monday.
