UN to investigate decision of a court in France to allow a paralysed man to be taken off life support
A handout photo taken in September 2013 by the parents of Vincent Lambert at a hospital in Reims, France. Picture: COURTESY OF THE LAMBERT FAMILY/AFPA UN committee has asked France to suspend any decision to withdraw life support for a man kept alive in a vegetative state for a decade, weighing in on a bitterly disputed legal case that has torn his family apart.
In 2014, the doctors, backed by Lambert’s wife, Rachel, five of his siblings and his nephew, Francois, decided to stop his nutrition and hydration in line with France’s passive euthanasia law. “The application has been filed and this international committee has begun its investigation,” he said, indicating it could take several years.
“We are not legally bound by this committee, but, of course, we will take into account what the UN says, and we will respond,” she told BFMTV on Sunday.
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