Article L1110-5-2 of the French Public Health Code
November 8, 2023
At the patient’s request to avoid all suffering and not to be subjected to unreasonable obstinacy, deep and continuous sedation causing altered consciousness maintained until death, combined with analgesia and the cessation of all life-sustaining treatments, is implemented in the following cases: 1° When a patient suffering from a serious and incurable disease with a short-term life-threatening prognosis is experiencing suffering that is refractory to treatment; 2° When the decision…
