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Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end

By Clare Wilson

10 July 2019

Josie Ford Art

Josie Ford

BY THE time you read this, Vincent Lambert may well be dead. He has been in a vegetative state since a car crash in 2008. In a twilight zone between life and death, he has been unable to talk, eat or respond meaningfully to others. following a ruling from the Court of Cassation, the country’s highest appeals court.

It followed a six-year legal battle between two sides of Lambert’s family – his wife and six brothers and sisters, who sought to let him die, and his parents and…

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