- 26 Sep 2003 19:28
#28757
Euthanasia is back on the news again, and the debate came back with it..
Let me explain you what happened: three years ago, a young man called Vincent Humber had a terrible accident which left him in the end tetraplegic, unable to speak and almost blind.
When he had his accident, he went into a deep coma, and the doctors told his mother that if he ever woke up, he would be like a zombie. The mother asked the doctors to stop doing everything to reanimate him, but there was a problem: the kid was 19, and consequently the advice of the mother did not count.
So they went on bringing him back to the real world, but at what price.. For three years now, the poor chap has been asking his mother to help him stop suffer and leave this world, he even wrote a book about his desire to die in peace.
A few days ago, the mother appeared in the name of her son on TF1 (our most important channel) to denounce the situation and the laws, and to say that she would, whatever the legal cost may be, help her son, with the support of her husband, and of her other son.
And that's why yesterday, she tried to make her son die. First arrested, she was soon released to see her son: the try had failed, and the doctors were once again, blinded in their desire to win, trying to bring him back to life. The other members of the family denouncing this attitude.
And this morning Vincent finally died. His brother declared: "We have what we want, he has what he wanted, that's all that matters" - "I am more than happy to see my brother free at last, we are all extremely relieved."
This will of course bring back the debate on the front again, and i think it's a good thing. Even if legalizing euthanasia could lead to abuses, the system is suffering from multiple flaws and must be changed!
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