Respect for advance directives or therapeutic relentlessness, the Council of State has decided.
On Tuesday, the highest administrative court rejected the request of the family of a patient in a coma who had expressed, in advance directives, the wish to be kept alive at all costs, even artificially.
The 44-year-old's mother and sisters tried to enforce this document, a handwritten letter sent to his doctor in 2020, stating his medical wishes in case he was no longer able to speak.
Last May, he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Valenciennes hospital after being run over by a truck he was repairing, and plunged into a deep coma.
The doctors judged, after a period of observation, that his condition had no chance of improving.
Considering that it was an unreasonable obstinacy, the medical team took in July, after a collegial procedure, the decision to stop…
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