“Our law still suffers from a number of significant flaws and deficiencies.” In a column published this Sunday in Sunday’s newspaper (JDD), the actress Line Renaud and the non-registered deputy Olivier Falorni, also the rapporteur for a bill on the end of life, have spoken out to legalize active assistance at death in France.
The 94-year-old singer, who has been involved in this fight for several years, denounces her misunderstanding at the refusal to implement deep and continuous sedation to “some of our citizens”, when “they suffer from widespread cancer, multiple sclerosis or advanced Charcot disease” and that “they want to shorten their lives”.
“Why deny them the right to die in peace, in peace?” ask Line Renaud and Olivier Falorni.
The example of Belgium
Both accuse France of showing “great hypocrisy” because “in the absence of an institutional solution, two types of response have emerged: exile in bordering countries to die there and the practice of clandestine euthanasia in our country.”
They call to see how other States have legalized active assistance when dying, such as Belgium, where, according to them, “the legalization of euthanasia has not led to its proliferation”, but “it has allowed better monitoring and control”. , since it already existed there “illegally”.
Line Renaud and Olivier Falorni recall that the latter’s bill “on the right to a free and chosen end of life” had been debated in the National Assembly on April 8, 2021. And that its article 1, which provides the creation of a “right to medical assistance in dying” had been adopted, despite a review that could not be completed. They want the text to be put back on Parliament’s agenda.
Source: BFM TV
