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| Vincent Lambert |
International Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Lambert has been living with a significant cognitive disability since his motorcycle accident in 2008.
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| Vincent Lambert's mother |
Lambert's doctors were within their rights, based on their "professional and moral independence," to suspend an earlier court decision that would have seen them cut the intravenous food and water keeping him alive.
...the decision to stop intravenous feeding can be undertaken "solely by the doctor in charge of care." The hospital may not oppose it.
The judges also ruled that the previous medical decision could not be imposed on a new doctor.
This judgement throws the burden of responsibility back on to the doctor,
On June 5, 2015; the European Court of Human Rights decided that Vincent Lambert, a cognitively disabled man, could have his food and water withdrawn causing his death by dehydration. Lambert's parent's appealed the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.
To intentionally withdraw fluids from a person who is not otherwise dying is a form of euthanasia by omission because the person directly and intentionally dies from dehydration and not from a medical condition.
To intentionally withdraw fluids from a person who is not otherwise dying is a form of euthanasia by omission because the person directly and intentionally dies from dehydration and not from a medical condition.
1 comment:
This is a violation of Article 25 (f) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities “Prevent discriminatory denial of health care services or Food and fluids on the basis of disability” This action is a direct Contravention of the Convention!
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