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...French law was drafted in the wake of the controversial case of Vincent Humbert, who was left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident. "France's general perception of what is going on in the Schiavo case is similar to the general mood with Humbert," says Cohen. "Most here have compassion for the patient, and are in favor of allowing death because they understand there is no point in living in this state." There is a difference, though. Vincent Humbert expressed a clear will to die. He dictated an acclaimed book, I Ask the Right...
...female first-years found themselves in the middle of a Bret Easton Ellis novel at 7 Story Street last weekend. The literary lionesses were getting freaky on the dance floor when Signet President Raja G. Haddad ’05 decided to get in on the action like Humbert Humbert at an Aaron Carter concert. Haddad’s over-enthusiastic pelvic thrusts and occasional biting prompted onlookers to wince. Come on Raja: don’t you know the pen is mightier than the, uh, sword...
...questions, but the real fun is watching Hugo squirm and rant like a crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness with an ease that suggests some chilling, unspoken connection between...
...Vincent Humbert believed he should have died on Sept. 24, 2000, the day he lost control of his car after his tire blew out, and ended up underneath an oncoming truck in the Normandy countryside. "[Death] most probably reached out her arms, seeing me in agony, and said to me, 'Let's go, come, come, it is over ... '" he wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote...
Chaussoy had not known Humbert well. But as head of the intensive-care unit at his hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, he was in charge after Humbert slipped back into the coma. The morning after Marie Humbert's failed attempt, Chaussoy and his team discussed the case. "I had only one fear - that Vincent would find himself in his former condition," Chaussoy would later say. And so, with the backing of Humbert's other doctors and nurses, he shut off the artificial respirator the next day. Humbert gasped, as sometimes happens when respirators are removed, Chaussoy says. So the doctor...