End-of-life care: Doctors and families do not need legal permission to allow patients to die, court rules. Families will no longer need to go before the courts for approval to withdraw feeding tubes from loved ones in a permanent vegetative state, after a ruling by the UK’s highest court upheld the end of life decision making of a man with an extensive brain injury. Alex Matthews vía The Indepenent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/end-of-life-care-uk-supreme-court-euthanasia-palliative-doctors-vegetative-state-a8469401.html