permanent unconsciousness

  • Read more: Dissecting the Charlie Gard Case

    Dissecting the Charlie Gard Case

    The judicial decision to allow mechanical life support to be removed from the British infant, Charlie Gard, has been roundly condemned by some sources.  The infant’s distraught mother lamented that the parents had been allowed “no control” over their child’s life and death.  Demonstrators, calling themselves “Charlie’s army,” assembled near the courthouse crying “shame” at…

  • Read more: Human Rights Tribunal Upholds France’s Policies on Ending Life Support for Permanently Unaware Patients

    Human Rights Tribunal Upholds France’s Policies on Ending Life Support for Permanently Unaware Patients

    By Norman L. Cantor France recently confronted its version of America’s 2005 Schiavo case (in which the Florida Supreme Court upheld a spouse’s determination to end life support to a permanently unconscious patient despite the patient’s parents’ objections). In 2014, France’s Conseil d’Etat ruled that artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) could be withdrawn from a…