The 'French exception': the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Horn, Ruth
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	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 between CDS and euthanasia and other forms of sympton control at the end of life. France is the first country in the world to legislate on CDS. This short report describes the particular context and underlying social values that led to this piece of legislation, and explores its meaning in the wider French context.
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ISSN	03066800
Journal	Journal of Medical Ethics [J Med Ethics]
Volume Number	44
DOI	10.1136/medethics-2017-104484
PubMed Central reference number	PMC5869460
Issue Number	3
PubMed reference number	29056584
e-ISSN	14734257
Language	English
Publisher	BMJ Publishing Group
Publisher Date	2017-10-22
Publisher Place	BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
Subject Keyword	end-of-life law pain management euthanasia
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Arts and Humanities Health (social science) Health Policy