They surrendered and lost the battle to keep their son alive | Chronic

Parents of Vicent Lambert, who is tetraplegic in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has finally communicated his decision to abandon the legal battle that he is conducting with his daughter-in-law and six of their children, who want the death "worthy" for the nurse.

Lambert, 42, suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him tetraplegic and totally dependent as a result of a grim road in 2008. In 2011, doctors ruled out any possibility of improvement and in 2014, his condition was qualified in relation to his current state.

"His death is inevitable, it has been imposed on him as well as us, and even if we do not accept it, we can only resign ourselves", they said in a statement Vicent and Pierre Lambert and two of his brothers, all Catholic traditionalists and the only ones in this extended family to have rejected the possibility of a dignified death.

The announcement was made this Monday, a week after the doctor Vincent Sánchez, responsible for Lambert's care at the hospital of the French city of Reims, has once again decided to stop the treatments that keep him alive.

The process of removing artificial nutrition and hydration and subjecting it to deep sedation began after the Supreme Court reopened the means to stop treatment.

"We can not do more than pray and accompany our dear Vincent with dignity and remembrance", reported in their note, posted on the website of a support committee for their son, which has already collected more than 139,000 signatures.

In France, euthanasia is not legalized, but the possibility of terminating the care of a person in a bad state is provided for by the Leonetti law, on behalf of the deputy who l 'lég lég lég lég,, Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon Leon. developed in 2005.

This regulation establishes that medical care "should not be prolonged with unreasonable obstinacy" and that, when they appear "useless, disproportionate or with no other effect than the artificial maintenance of life, they may be suspended or not undertaken".

The regulation was updated in 2016 to include in this end-of-life process a "deep and continuous sedation" so that the patient does not suffer until his death.