Vincent Lambert, 42, has had his life support withdrawn after being kept in a vegetative state for a decadeDoctors for a quadriplegic man who has been in a vegetative state for the last decade have started switching off his life support today, the lawyer for his parents has said. But doctors from the Sebastopol hospital in Reims said they would begin turning off life support systems on Monday following a final judicial ruling. Jean Paillot, the lawyer for Vincent Lambert's parents, said: 'It is shameful, they (the parents) could not even embrace their son.' The parents' legal team had on Sunday vowed to launch multiple legal challenges in a last-ditch bid to stop the systems being switched off. He said that there were 1,500 patients in a similar position to Vincent Lambert in France.

Source: Daily Mail May 20, 2019 09:33 UTC