France passes law to ease end-of-life suffering

March 17, 2015 23:29

French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly today in favour of a law allowing medics to place terminally ill patients into a deep sleep until they die.

The law, which has re-ignited the deeply divisive debate about euthanasia, also makes "living wills" -- drafted by people who do not want to be kept alive artificially if they are too ill to decide -- legally binding on doctors.

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