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...wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation is again holding its breath. Humbert's mother awaits indictment for attempted poisoning, punishable by up to five years in prison; and his doctor, for premeditated poisoning, which can mean life in prison. As Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Gérald Lesigne began detailing the allegations this month, France debated the fine line between letting someone die and killing him. This time, the man in the middle is Humbert's doctor, Frédéric Chaussoy. A majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases...
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...
...FRANCIS MER, French Finance Minister, on U.S. justice; his government disagrees with U.S. prosecutors over France's role in the failure of insurer Executive Life
...find Berlin's most unusual art exhibition, jump off the tram at Alexanderplatz in the center of Berlin and duck down a flight of broad concrete stairs into the Underground station. Take a quick right, stop at a yellow, graffiti-covered steel door. Knock. Nina and Torsten Römer, curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump...
...Mother's Love FRANCE Few would condemn a mother for relieving her child's suffering - but police in Berck-sur-Mer may reluctantly do just that. Last Wednesday officials launched homicide inquiries after Marie Humbert injected barbiturates into the IV drip of her severely handicapped son, Vincent; he died Friday. Left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident, the mentally sound Vincent used movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help...