Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===France===
Assisted suicide is not legal in France. The controversy over legalising voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is not as big as in the United States because of the country's "well developed [[hospice]] care programme".<ref name="McDougall 2008 84">{{harvnb|McDougall|Gorman|2008|p=84}}</ref> However, in 2000 the controversy over the topic was ignited with {{interlanguage link|Vincent Humbert|fr}}. After a car crash that left him "unable to 'walk, see, speak, smell or taste'", he used the movement of his right thumb to write a book, ''I Ask the Right to Die ({{interlanguage link|Je vous demande le droit de mourir|fr}})'', in which he voiced his desire to "die legally".<ref name="McDougall 2008 84"/> After his appeal was denied, his mother assisted in killing him by injecting him with an overdose of barbiturates that put him into a coma, killing him two days later. Though his mother was arrested for aiding in her son's death and later acquitted, the case did jump-start new legislation which states that when medicine serves "no other purpose than the artificial support of life" it can be "suspended or not undertaken".<ref>{{harvnb|McDougall|Gorman|2008|p=86}}</ref>