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07-01-2015, 11:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
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Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - Europe's human rights court on Wednesday began hearing arguments on whether a man in a vegetative state should be taken off life support, in a case that has torn his family apart and ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
Vincent Lambert, 38, who was left severely brain damaged and quadriplegic as a result of a 2008 road accident, has for months been at the centre of a judicial tug-of-war over his right to die.
And after fighting it out in French courts, his family is hoping that Europe's rights laws will shed light on whether he should be kept alive, or allowed to die.
The legal drama began in January 2014 when Lambert's doctors, backed by his wife and six of his eight siblings, decided to cut off the intravenous food and water keeping him alive in line with a 2005 passive euthanasia law in France which allows treatment maintaining life to be withheld.
http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-...060148521.html (http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-court-mulls-whether-let-french-quadriplegic-060148521.html)
His 33-year-old wife, Rachel, who like him is a psychiatric nurse, said he would never have wanted to be kept alive artificially, while doctors said that their patient was "suffering."
However, his deeply religious Catholic parents, half-brother and sister won an urgent court application to stop the plan.
Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-...060148521.html (http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-court-mulls-whether-let-french-quadriplegic-060148521.html)
If PAP government was that soft hearted, our Medisave reserves would have long ago been bankrupted and our GST raised to 15% to help pay for medical bills.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197419-Koo-Niang-Ang-Mor-Debates-Whether-To-Kill-Vegetable&goto=newpost).
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Quote:
Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - Europe's human rights court on Wednesday began hearing arguments on whether a man in a vegetative state should be taken off life support, in a case that has torn his family apart and ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
Vincent Lambert, 38, who was left severely brain damaged and quadriplegic as a result of a 2008 road accident, has for months been at the centre of a judicial tug-of-war over his right to die.
And after fighting it out in French courts, his family is hoping that Europe's rights laws will shed light on whether he should be kept alive, or allowed to die.
The legal drama began in January 2014 when Lambert's doctors, backed by his wife and six of his eight siblings, decided to cut off the intravenous food and water keeping him alive in line with a 2005 passive euthanasia law in France which allows treatment maintaining life to be withheld.
http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-...060148521.html (http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-court-mulls-whether-let-french-quadriplegic-060148521.html)
His 33-year-old wife, Rachel, who like him is a psychiatric nurse, said he would never have wanted to be kept alive artificially, while doctors said that their patient was "suffering."
However, his deeply religious Catholic parents, half-brother and sister won an urgent court application to stop the plan.
Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-...060148521.html (http://news.yahoo.com/europe-rights-court-mulls-whether-let-french-quadriplegic-060148521.html)
If PAP government was that soft hearted, our Medisave reserves would have long ago been bankrupted and our GST raised to 15% to help pay for medical bills.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197419-Koo-Niang-Ang-Mor-Debates-Whether-To-Kill-Vegetable&goto=newpost).