It is a delicate societal reform that could mark the second five -year term. While the deputies resumed on Monday the examination of the two law proposals on palliative care and help to die, journalist Charles Biétry agreed to evoke the subject during the Big program that TF 1 organized this Tuesday evening around the President of the Republic.
The end of life is the last fight of this 81 -year -old man. The former Director of Sports of Canal + and pattern of BeIN Sports suffers from Charcot’s disease (amyotrophic side sclerosis, SLA). A pathology that prevents him today from speaking, from moving other than in wheelchair, from moving to his arms, his hands. His fight, he told it in January in “The last wave” (Flammarion), his autobiography which has passed at 10,000 copies.
From the first preparations for this special presented by Gilles Bouleau from 8:10 p.m., the channel management called Audrey Crespo-Mara, who had questioned Charles Biétry at length At the time of his book in order to put them in touch.
Charles Biétry did not hesitate to intervene, he who has his eyes permanently currently on the public channel Senate “so as not to miss a word” of the debate in the assembly, he confides to us on Whatsapp. By participating in the show, “I saw the opportunity to talk about the end of life, to defend this new freedom that a law can bring us,” he explains a few minutes before the start of the show.
It is resolutely located in the rank of supporters of the end of life law: he explained in January on TF 1 to have decided to go to Switzerland, “if in France the conditions are not met for a soft and almost calm death”. “My wife and children will accompany me, and smiling at them, I will swallow the last cachet « , He still confided to our newspaper last January.
His voice generated by software
Regarding this Tuesday program, Charles Biétry and TF 1 quickly agreed: the former president of PSG would ask the president only one question. A video of around thirty seconds broadcast live and to which the head of state is invited to respond.
As during his heartbreaking interview with “seven to you”, Charles Biétry wrote his intervention. His wife filmed him face camera with a mobile phone, while a voice generated by his synthetic voice software reads the text he is no longer in the ability to pronounce himself.
It is a “fairly strong message”, breathes a person in the confidence which recalls that the journalist repeats that he had a good life, and that he would like to succeed in his death … “In the middle of a difficult debate in the assembly, my voice is only a drop of water but the opinion of the president does not seem neutral to me”, underlines Charles Biétry.
