Landmark decision by Court of Protection gives MS sufferer ‘right to die’A 68-year-old MS sufferer has been given the right to die after her daughter argued that her life had no dignity. The Court of Protection heard how the woman was “completely incapacitated” and had requested that doctors stop providing clinically assisted food and water. Mathieu Culverhouse of
This landmark decision is the first time that the Court of Protection has agreed to withdraw treatment from someone receiving life sustaining treatment while considered by medical experts to be in a ‘minimally conscious state’.
