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Frenchman dies after 9 days of court-ordered forced starvation
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:14 pm
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Following nine days of starvation — after French courts gave the green light to his slow, torturous means of death at the hands of French doctors — 42-year-old Vincent Lambert passed away Thursday.
The Catholic Herald reported that Lambert, a disabled French man and former nurse died in Reims, France, after a years-long legal battle between his wife and his parents.
Lambert was left quadriplegic after sustaining massive head injuries during a 2008 traffic accident. His wife wanted to take him off life support years ago; his parents didn't. After years of legal battles that went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Cassation overruled an order from May to maintain Lambert's feeding and hydration support in late June, a story at Aleteia explained.
On July 2, doctors informed the family that Lambert's tube would be removed, effectively condemning the man to a slow death by starvation and dehydration.
Following the July decision, Lambert's mother, Viviane, issued a final, desperate plea to save her son.
"I am launching a call for help today. Without your intervention, my son will be euthanized due to his brain handicap," Viviane told the a U.N. panel in Geneva, explaining that her son was "in a state of minimal conscience but he is not a vegetable."
"In May, when learning about his planned death, [Vincent] cried," Viviane continued. "We are deeply upset this is why we have turned to the U.N. Committee of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities prohibits depriving a person of food and drink."
"He sleeps at night, wakes up during the day, and looks at me when I talk," Viviane said. "He only needs to be fed through a special device and his doctor wants to deprive him of this so that he can die, while legal experts have have shown that this is not necessary."
"It's murder in disguise," Vincent's 90-year-old father, Pierre Lambert, told reporters at the hospital earlier this week. "It's euthanasia."
Following nine days of starvation — after French courts gave the green light to his slow, torturous means of death at the hands of French doctors — 42-year-old Vincent Lambert passed away Thursday.
The Catholic Herald reported that Lambert, a disabled French man and former nurse died in Reims, France, after a years-long legal battle between his wife and his parents.
Lambert was left quadriplegic after sustaining massive head injuries during a 2008 traffic accident. His wife wanted to take him off life support years ago; his parents didn't. After years of legal battles that went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Cassation overruled an order from May to maintain Lambert's feeding and hydration support in late June, a story at Aleteia explained.
On July 2, doctors informed the family that Lambert's tube would be removed, effectively condemning the man to a slow death by starvation and dehydration.
Following the July decision, Lambert's mother, Viviane, issued a final, desperate plea to save her son.
"I am launching a call for help today. Without your intervention, my son will be euthanized due to his brain handicap," Viviane told the a U.N. panel in Geneva, explaining that her son was "in a state of minimal conscience but he is not a vegetable."
"In May, when learning about his planned death, [Vincent] cried," Viviane continued. "We are deeply upset this is why we have turned to the U.N. Committee of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities prohibits depriving a person of food and drink."
"He sleeps at night, wakes up during the day, and looks at me when I talk," Viviane said. "He only needs to be fed through a special device and his doctor wants to deprive him of this so that he can die, while legal experts have have shown that this is not necessary."
"It's murder in disguise," Vincent's 90-year-old father, Pierre Lambert, told reporters at the hospital earlier this week. "It's euthanasia."
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:15 pm to Crimson Wraith
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and looks at me when I talk
He was probably pleading... KILL ME NOW!
This post was edited on 7/11/19 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:19 pm to Crimson Wraith
Food and water is not life support. They starved that guy to death. That is fricking sick.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:19 pm to Crimson Wraith
Well that is one side of the story, how about we hear the other side now.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:19 pm to Crimson Wraith
Being paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe, eat, or speak without computers is not living. I'd rather die than live that life. I understand his parents side, but I;m sure he wasn't "looking" at them and thinking "This is fine. I'm fine. Everything is fine."
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:21 pm to Shiftyplus1
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Being paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe, eat, or speak without computers is not living. I'd rather die than live that life. I understand his parents side, but I;m sure he wasn't "looking" at them and thinking "This is fine. I'm fine. Everything is fine."
He was breathing on his own.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:21 pm to Shiftyplus1
Not a good reason to starve him to death.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:22 pm to BlackAdam
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They starved that guy to death.
Think of your choices of execution:
Hanging
Burning
Drowning
Electrocution
Lethal Gas
Dropped off a building
Fed to sharks/lions/tigers
Starved to death over a week and a half, two weeks.
Starved to death is pretty bad.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:23 pm to Crimson Wraith
Starving someone for 9 days is murder.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:23 pm to Crimson Wraith
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European Court of Human Rights
Please dear God let me never end up in this place.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:24 pm to Shiftyplus1
This is when it sucks to not believe in Jesus Christ.
True believers would have said their good-byes and wished him well in the next life.
True believers would have said their good-byes and wished him well in the next life.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:25 pm to DarthRebel
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True believers would have said their good-byes and wished him well in the next life.
He would have continued living.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
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"In May, when learning about his planned death, [Vincent] cried,"
Was it tears of fear or relief?
Once again, we only have one side of the story.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:30 pm to Ace Midnight
Yea if I’m in that state just shoot me up with a lethal dose of opiates so I go out feeling good
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:36 pm to tiggerthetooth
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He would have continued living.
Always make your peace and accept the hand you are dealt.
Here are more details.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Vincent_Lambert
I like the DVs I am getting, but I also believe Vincent is in a better place now in Heaven. The end is not the end.
Edit to add - This place sometimes. Vincent needs to live forever, but we need to deport every illegal even though that means many will actually die in their 3rd world country.
This post was edited on 7/11/19 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:40 pm to Crimson Wraith
Reminds me of my favorite Metallica song, "Un."
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:43 pm to Ace Midnight
Starvation by far is the most painful and worst way to die.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:57 pm to Crimson Wraith
All those involved are gonna make for some good company for Josef Mengele in Gehenna.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 3:58 pm to Crimson Wraith
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Frenchman dies after 9 days of court-ordered forced starvation
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His wife wanted to take him off life support years ago; his parents didn't. After years of legal battles that went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Cassation overruled an order from May to maintain Lambert's feeding and hydration support in late June, a story at Aleteia explained.
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