Report: Mandela in permanent vegetative state
Report: Mandela in permanent vegetative state
Court documents obtained by AFP reveal anti-apartheid icon's family advised to turn off life support machine.
Doctors treating Nelson Mandela have said the anti-apartheid icon was in a "permanent vegetative state" and advised his family to turn off his life support machine a week ago, according to court documents obtained by the AFP news agency.
"He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine," said the court filing dated June 26.
"Rather than prolonging his suffering, the Mandela family is exploring this option as a very real probability," read a filing from the family's lawyer, relating to a dispute over the final resting place of South Africa's first democractically elected black president.
Since the document was written, the government, family members and people visiting Mandela have reported his condition has improved.
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