Hours after they began the process of allowing him to die, French doctors were ordered to restore the life support of a man in a vegetative state whose controversial case has divided his family and the public:
Vincent Lambert, 42, sustained severe brain damage in a car accident in 2008 and has been on life support at Sebastopol Hospital in Reims, northeast France, where medical experts have determined that his situation is irreversible. But for more than five years, legal battles have raged between his family members over whether he should be kept alive, igniting a watershed debate in the country and drawing in international bodies, the French President and even the Pope.
"We hope, therefore, that efficient measures to safeguard the life of Mr Lambert be found," they added.But others condemned the appeals court for a decision that, they argued, would needlessly extend Lambert's poor quality of life rather than allowing him to die humanely and providing his relatives with closure.
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