France: Vincent Lambert will die, a man in a vegetative state for 10 years

French doctor Vincent Lambert,
A quadriplegic in a vegetative state for more than a decade, become the symbol of the debate on euthanasia, announced to the family that he was going to stop his treatment in two weeks to let him die.

Lambert, a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse by profession, suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him tetraplegic and totally dependent, following a grim road in 2008.

In 2011, doctors ruled out any possibility of improvement and, in 2014, their condition was clbadified as vegetative.

The lawyers of Lambert's parents, Jean Paillot and Jérôme Triomphe, loyal advocates of their right to life, reported that Dr. Sánchez of the Reims hospital had informed them of his intention to execute the decision to disconnect Lambert.

The interruption of treatment, authorized in April by the State Council – the highest level of administrative justice – and endorsed by the European Court of Human Rights, would take place, according to this source, in the week of the 20th of this month, according to the agency. EFE.

The lawyers said that "if this decision were to be executed, Lambert would die in a few days" and invoked the request made to France five days ago by the Committee on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities to suspend any decision meanwhile consider the merits of the case.

For its part, the French government, which had declared that it would respond to the international organization, understood that the legal course of the case was exhausted, after the response given by the Board of 39; ;State.

For lawyers, "There is no medical emergency to interrupt Lambert's diet and hydration, and there is no justification for such a blatant violation of international law and the precautionary measures required by the law." UN".

In the patient's own family, the parents, the sister and a half-brother are in favor of his artificial maintenance, while his wife, his five brothers and sisters and a nephew oppose the extension of their treatment.

Telam Agency