PARIS: France's highest appeals court said Friday that the life support mechanisms keeping a severely brain-damaged man alive can be turned off"from now", a lawyer for his wife said, in the latest legal twist in a landmark right-to-die case.
The emotive case has taken the warring Lambert family to the top tribunals in France and Europe, with Lambert's parents, who are devout Catholics, fighting a six-year legal battle to maintain his treatment. The Cour de Cassation was asked to rule on that judgement in an appeal by the French government and the Reims hospital.
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