This document discusses nutrition and hydration in end-of-life decisions under French law and from an ethical perspective. It summarizes the key points of the Leonetti Law in France, which establishes patients' rights to appropriate care, pain management, and informed consent, as well as physicians' duties to avoid futile treatment. It examines ethical issues around artificial nutrition and hydration being basic care or medical treatment. It also explores the influence of medicalization on views of hydration and nutrition and the need for physicians to consider patients' individual experiences and perspectives, not just evidence-based standards.