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Doctor plans to withdraw life support in French right-to-die case

Vincent Lambert has been kept in a vegetative state at a hospital in Reims, northwest France, since suffering severe brain damage in a car wreck in 2008. [AFP]

The doctor of a Frenchman whose family has kept him alive in a vegetative state for a decade has informed them that he plans to take the patient off life support this month, lawyers said Saturday.

Vincent Lambert, 42, was left a tetraplegic after a car accident in 2008, with doctors later determining his severe brain damage was irreversible.

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