A sensitive debate that returns to the front of the political scene. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleaudenounced on Saturday The text on help to diewhich will be debated from Monday in the National Assembly, while the singer Line Renaud and the former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal co -signed a tribune the defendant.
This text is “deeply unbalanced” and “blows up all the locks. It is not a text of appeasement, it is an anthropological rupture text, “said Sunday newspaper Bruno Retailleau about the bill tabled by Olivier Falorni (related modem).
“If it was voted as it is, it would become easier to ask for death than to be treated,” denounces Minister LR, speaking of a text which “is that of renunciation, of abandonment”. “I will fight, because Our company needs palliative careno legalization of euthanasia, ”warns Bruno Retailleau.
“Offer the patients freedom of choice”
“If no one wishes to die, on the other hand, some may want to stop suffering,” argue for their side Line Renaud, 96, and Gabriel Attal, 36, in the columns of La Tribune on Sunday. For them, “to oppose by conservatism to any evolution of law is to pass one’s dogmatism before the suffering of the patients. It is missing from his duty of listening and humanity to impose his moral ”.
Line Renaud and Gabriel Attal, who chairs the Macronist group together for the Republic in the National Assembly, therefore call for acting “to offer patients the freedom of choice”.
“The patients who wish to be accompanied towards death do not do so by fad or lightness”, but because “suffering no longer finds a way out”, they still write, saying their will to “draw an alert signal”.
Who could benefit from it?
At the end of April, the deputies approved the bill In the Social Affairs Committee to allow patients with a “serious and incurable affection” which “commits the vital prognosis, in advanced or terminal phase” and no longer supporting their suffering, to receive or administer a lethal substance.
The Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrinestimated last month that the opening of help to die is “essential for those whose suffering (…) cannot be relieved”, ensuring that this does not open “an anthropological break” due to the multiple conditions set. The text on the end of life was split into two law proposals, one on help to die and the other, much more consensual, on palliative care.
In an opinion, the High Authority for Health has judged “impossible”, for lack of medical consensus, to determine who could benefit from help to die based on a vital prognosis committed “in the medium term” or on a “terminal phase” of illness, but it suggests taking into account “the quality of the rest” of the person.
