"France killed Vincent Lambert": the hard accusation of the writer Michel Houllebecq on the case of dignified death

The case of Vincent Lambert, the man who has been disconnected from the health service with the downstream of France after spending 11 years in a vegetative state, generates a strong debate in Europe on dignified death. Now, the influential writer Michel Houellebecq He badured that Lambert "had been murdered by the state".

In a column published in the local newspaper Le Monde, the author wrote: "It is so that the French State has managed to carry out what it viciously sought for years." , to almost all his family: kill Vincent Lambert ".

Lambert's death was imminent after doctors suspended treatment He remained alive after a long court battle.

The gallery is titled "Vincent Lambert, died to be an example", refers to military language, when a soldier is shot not only as a condemnation of his actions, but also for his execution to serve as a warning to others.

This is the meaning of the text of Houellebecq, who in his fiction expressed his repudiation of euthanasia through the protagonists of his novels, as Elementary particles o The map and the territory.

Houellebecq regrets that the Minister of Health appealed the court's decision to reconnect the equipment that kept Lambert alive and despite the fact that President Emmanuel Macron had previously stated that he preferred to remain "neutral" " in that case.

The author of serotonin ensures that the quadriplegic patient "did not suffer" and that "he lived in a particular mental state, which, to be honest, we would say we know almost nothing".

Houellebecq denounces "Vincent Lambert deceased from the aftermath of ato excessive mediation, having transformed beyond his will into a symbol "for "open a slot" and make "evolve mentalities".

Houellebecq responds to the patient's suffering argument that this is not a problem since morphine is used. For those who talk about "dignified death", retreated that if this dignity, "I respect what someone deserves" it can be modified by different morally questionable acts, it can in no case result from a degradation, even catastrophic, of its state of health.