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 In 2014, France’s Conseil d’Etat ruled that artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) could be withdrawn from a…