European court to rule in right-to-die case

Europe's human rights court will decide on Friday if a man in a vegetative state can be taken off life support in a case that ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.

Vincent Lambert, who is in his late 30s, was left severely brain damaged and quadriplegic as a result of a 2008 road accident and has for months been at the center of a judicial tug-of-war over his right to die.

His wife, Rachel, who, like him, is a psychiatric nurse, has said he would never have wanted to be kept alive artificially and that she wants to "let him go".