The ‘French exception’: the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life
In 2016, a law came into force in France granting terminally ill patients the right to continuous deep sedation (CDS) until death. This right was proposed as an alternative to euthanasia and presented as the 'French response' to problems at the end of life. The law draws a distinction betw...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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