(ANSA) - Vatican City, July 11 - Every life has value, Pope Francis said Thursday after the death of Vincent Lambert,a French tetraplegic in a vegetative state who was taken off life support by judicial order earlier this week.
"May God the Father welcome into His arms Vincent Lambert," Francis tweeted.
"Let's not build a civilisation which eliminates persons whose life we think is no longer worthy of being lived: every life has value, always".
Every life has value says pope on Lambert
'Let's not build society that rids people deemed not worthy'