{"id":126327,"date":"2019-07-06T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/murder-or-mercy-right-to-die-case-tears-french-family-apart-video\/"},"modified":"2019-07-06T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:10:32","slug":"murder-or-mercy-right-to-die-case-tears-french-family-apart-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/murder-or-mercy-right-to-die-case-tears-french-family-apart-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder or mercy? 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As a result, Lamberts family has been torn apart by legal battles, with his wife and several siblings pitted against his mother and father, who insist that he be kept alive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/sport\/461588-fernando-ricksen-disease-euthanasia\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">                           Also on rt.com             I have no intention to make it my final day: Fernando Ricksen says he&#039;s not considering euthanasia                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lamberts mother, who believes that stopping medical support for her son would be <em>\u201cakin to torture,\u201d<\/em> has even appealed to President Emmanuel Macron. Macron, however, has said that the matter should be decided by Lamberts wife \u2013 who is his legal caretaker \u2013 and his doctors.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic ordeal could have been easily avoided, Sheila Duffy, a press officer for Friends at the End, an organization that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/463519-vincent-lambert-france-right-die\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Russia-today-logo.svg\/1200px-Russia-today-logo.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a grueling legal battle, French doctors have begun removing life support from a man who has be..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Murder or mercy? 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