"Vincent's death is now unavoidable." After years of judicial struggle against what they consider to be an "assassination", Vincent Lambert's parents resigned Monday, July 8, to the "inevitable" death of their son, whose treatment was once again interrupted. July 2nd.

Vincent Lambert's death has been imposed on him and on us, and if we do not accept it, we can only resign ourselves to pain, misunderstanding and hope, "his parents in an open letter communicated to AFP by their lawyer.

Stop hydration and nutrition

"This time, it's over.Our lawyers have multiplied these last days still the recourse and carried out final actions to enforce the suspensive appeal before the UN which benefitted to Vincent In vain", write Viviane and Pierre Lambert as well Vincent's sister, Anne Lambert, and her half-brother David Philippon in this letter to their "friends" who have "supported them so much" in recent years.

The doctor of Vincent Lambert, hospitalized with the CHU of Reims after a car accident in 2008, committed Tuesday, July 2nd a new stop of the treatments, effective since Wednesday evening. This decision was made possible on June 28 by the Court of Cassation. The medical protocol includes the stopping of hydration and nutrition by patient probe as well as "deep and continuous sedation".

A "therapeutic relentlessness"

The wife of Vincent Lambert, Rachel - who was Monday morning at the bedside of her husband now aged 42 - as well as six of her brothers and sisters and her nephew François plead for years against "fiercely therapeutic" and for let die this man become the symbol of the debate on the end of life in France. According to them, Vincent had told them orally to prefer to die than to live "like a vegetable". However, he never drafted an advance directive.

The resignation of the parents intervenes, whereas, Sunday, the father of Vincent Lambert had denounced, arriving at the CHU, "the disguised assassination" in course of his son. On his Facebook page, the group "I support Vincent", also opposed to the cessation of treatment, called for a rally in Paris Monday afternoon, before canceling it.

"Vincent does not suffer"

Leaving Vincent Lambert's room at the time of the publication of their parents' letter, his sister Marie greeted "a wise decision". "I am very surprised, I can not believe it after years of fighting in court.I think it is reasonable and respectful," she told AFP.

Marie Lambert met again in the morning with Dr. Sanchez who reaffirmed to him "the certainty" that "Vincent does not suffer", thanks to "products administered".

A wait "very painful for everyone"

"We are in the last stage of the process, the effects of dehydration are now felt but we do not know how many days it will take, and this is a very painful wait for everyone," added Vincent Lambert's younger sister. .

"Unfortunately, it's not euthanasia, otherwise it would go faster, it would be a little less sadistic from my point of view, and we would give patients a little more rights," François Lambert also said earlier. RTL microphone.

With AFP