[22]. According to some authors,the

[22]. According to some authors,
the decision to withdraw or withhold artificial nutrition and
hydration during CSD is potentially life-shortening, thus crossing
the line of intentions between alleviating suffering and hastening
death, and bringing CSD one step closer to a slow euthanasia [16,23]. This lack of clarity of intentions in CSD could result in
a grey area between the two practices. In addition the text of
the law voted by the French parliament includes that sedation is
aimed at ‘preventing from prolonging a useless life’ (understand
useless viewed as such by the patient). This wording expresses a
normative value, put on a more or less useful life, that is ethically
questionable: while one can understand that for many patients in
such conditions, prolonging their life is useless, the inclusion of
the word ‘useless’ in the law includes an objective meaning, that
could appear as a social constraint.