Is ira ** Enya Baroux French film, 1 h 37 At the start of the year, each month brings a new film on the end of life, a sign that the subject is at the heart of the concerns of our society. The next room by Pedro Almodova in January, The last breath de Costa-Gavras … Read more
The question of end of life arises in two species: the development of palliative care and active help to die. As much as the extension of palliative care is almost unanimous, as much euthanasia and assisted suicide divide opinion. Because these latest questions suppose different conceptions of the common good, but also convictions concerning the … Read more
In The last breaththe film by Costa-Gavras adapted to the eponymous book which he co-signed in 2023 with Régis Debray, Doctor Claude Grange briefly appears in the role of a cardiologist who opposes the last will of a patient at the end of Life: Go eating oysters in Loctudy, in his native Brittany. A perfect … Read more
The Room Next Door *** by Pedro Almodovar Spanish film, 1h46 When he finally received a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on September 7 – the first supreme award obtained in a major festival – for The Room Next DoorPedro Almodovar could not help but advocate for euthanasia. “I think it is a … Read more
This Friday, British legislators initially passed a bill to allow terminally ill adults to choose to end their lives in England and Wales. The vote, which ended 330 to 275, marks an important step in the legislative process, although the bill will undergo closer scrutiny. In the debate, which was spirited at times, ethical, legal, … Read more
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, pleaded on Saturday for Parliament to resume its work on the end of life based on the bill tabled by MoDem deputy Olivier Falorni. Rather than relaunching parliamentary work via a bill that Michel Barnier’s government could table, “we must start again” from the bill presented by … Read more
How can the government plan to relaunch the debate on end of life in the National Assembly from January 2025, when we know the state of our health system? Where does this relentlessness come from, in flagrant contradiction with the priority expectations of the French in terms of access to care? No one can ignore … Read more
Prime Minister Michel Barnier made a commitment to this last October 3 during the program “The Event” on France 2: the parliamentary debate on the end-of-life bill was going to ” to resume “. It remained to set a date for the resumption of work. It will be from the end of January, said Tuesday, … Read more
The text on the end of life will be examined in the National Assembly from January 27, announced Tuesday, November 5, the government and the president of the lower house, Yaël Braun-Pivet. “At the conference of presidents, I obtained from the government a commitment to include the text on the end of life on the … Read more
“I am not a murderer” : Bernard Pallot, 78, was acquitted on Wednesday October 30 in Troyes where he had been on trial since Monday for the murder of his sick wife Suzanne, whom he admits to having strangled so that she would no longer suffer. “This trial testifies to the inadequacy of the law … Read more