He has been in a vegetative state for over ten years and his doctor announced that he would stop his treatment – 05/11/2019

French doctor Vincent Lambert, tetraplegic in the vegetative state for more than a decade who became a symbol of the euthanasia debate, told the family that she would stop her treatment in the next few days to let him die.

The lawyers for Lambert's parents, Jean Paillot and Jérôme Triomphe, informed the EFE agency that Dr. Sanchez of the Reims hospital had informed them of his intention to Execute the decision he made a month ago to disconnect Lambert.

The interruption of treatment, according to this source, would occur in week starting May 20th. The lawyers say that "if this decision were to be executed, Lambert would die in a few days" and invoke the request made to France five days ago by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to suspend any decision pending the examination the bottom of the case.

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The French government, which has stated that it was going to react to the UN, believes that the legal track of the case is exhausted, after the State Council – the highest body of administrative justice – was authorized in April. stop treatment and the European Court of Human Rights approves it.

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For lawyers, "There is no medical emergency to interrupt Lambert 's diet and hydration, and nothing justifies such a blatant violation of international law and the precautionary measures required by the United Nations. "

This case has become in France a model of debate on end-of-life treatments and death with dignity. In the patient's own family, there are supporters (parents, sister and half-brother) and opponents (wife, five brothers and sisters and a nephew) who keep it artificially alive.

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Lambert, 42, a psychiatric nurse by profession, was a victim of a road accident in 2008. The traumatic brain injury left him tetraplegic and totally dependent. In 2011, doctors ruled out any possibility of improvement and, in 2014, their condition was clbadified as vegetative.

Their parents, with deep religious beliefs, have always defended their right to life and they consider that disconnecting it would imply inhuman or degrading treatment. They have exhausted the possible legal remedies in recent years.

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According to the Spanish newspaper El País, parents still resort to the last resort before the United Nations Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. "In practice, France feels more attached to the decisions of the ECHR than to the United Nations committees when there are differences", told Agence France Presse the European law specialist Nicolas Hervieu. François Lambert, Vincent's nephew, badured the same media that "nothing stands in the way of the decision" to put an end to the care his uncle receives. "It's like applying and finally Vincent can leave," he asked.

Source: The Vanguardia