article_snippet: (CNN)If death is the big sleep, as CNN)If death is sometimes called, is there anything wrong with a dying person choosing a medically induced smaller sleep -- deep sedation -- to avoid the pain of a terminal illness?
article_snippet: Is it OK for a patient to choose to spend a patient or a patient final days on this mortal coil in what would amount to a medically induced coma?
article_snippet: Members of French Parliament offered resounding support Tuesday for the proposition that is should be permissible for doctors to induce sleep until death in terminally ill patients who are in pain.
article_snippet: a bill that would allow doctors to put patients under deep sedation until they die goes now to the French Senate.
article_snippet: Should a bill that would allow doctors to put patients under deep sedation until they die become law, doctors would be allowed to administer "deep sedation until death" to terminally ill patients who request a bill that would allow doctors to put patients under deep sedation until they die, and for whom palliative care would not ease the pain.
article_snippet: law would also allow doctors who have stopped life-saving measures to administer deep sedation, if they deem law appropriate, to terminally ill patients who are unable to give they consent.
article_snippet: What the law entails, according to Jean Leonetti, the member of Parliament who proposed it, is simple: "Sleep before death to avoid suffering.
article_snippet: What it also entails is legal protection for doctors who, in fact, already sedate some dying patients, and who are sometimes taken to court by relatives as a result.
highlights_snippet: French Parliament approves Tuesday a bill that would allow doctors to put patients under deep sedation until doctors die .
  
highlights_snippet: More than 90% of French people support a bill that would allow doctors to put patients under deep sedation until they die .