‘God wants him to be alive’: Family fights landmark battle over medical consent
Sittng on a courtroom bench, son and daughter on either side, Parichehr Salasel listened to lawyers argue over who has the final say on her husband’s life – his doctors or his family.
She and her family have been in Canada just over a year; for most of that, 59-year-old Hassan Rasouli has been in what his doctors call a persistent vegetative state.
Multiple neurologists say the outlook isn’t good. Since coming down with bacterial meningitis after brain surgery in October, Mr. Rasouli has been comatose – irreversibly, they say. And as his doctors, they argue, it’s their responsibility to end treatment that would lead only to a protracted, bedridden death. Read more
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