Overview
- Conseil d'État overturned a September administrative order that had blocked the hospital from stopping mechanical ventilation.
- The ruling concerns Chabane Teboul, 64, who has been in a deep coma since the summer after multiple cardiorespiratory arrests during throat cancer treatment.
- The court found the family's observations of apparent reactions insufficient to justify continued treatment under the ban on disproportionate care.
- Advance directives requesting that everything be done to keep him alive were rejected as presented too late and inapplicable to his condition.
- Clinicians plan deep, continuous sedation under existing end-of-life law, as the decision renews debate ahead of early 2026 parliamentary discussions on assisted dying.