On July 11, 2019, Vincent Lambert passed away at the Hospital of Reims. This is the final act of more than a decade of a familial, medical, legal, political and media saga that took unlikely twists and turns and lasted until the eve of his death. How did the issue of this young man’s life upend an entire society’s relationship to the question of life and death?
Returning Series
Lambert contre Lambert : au nom de Vincent
May 10, 2023
May 10, 2023
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Eleven years after Vincent’s accident, his wife, Rachel, and his mother, Viviane, driven respectively by their vows and their convictions, are fighting to the end, using all their fortitude. Vincent Lambert is “unplugged” for the third and last time, and a divided France practically watches the death play out live.
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