There is “a way” towards active assistance in dying, but “under certain strict conditions”, estimated Tuesday the National Advisory Committee on Ethics.
Political urgency or societal need? After years of reflection and fiery debate on the highly sensitive subject of end of life, the timetable is accelerating. The National Advisory Committee on Ethics (CCNE) gave the green light to a major change by exploring the path of assisted suicide in a new opinion on the end of life, made public on Tuesday. A break with the ban on killing which guides the Leonetti-Claeys law of 2016. And with the CCNE’s previous positions. At the time of the launch of this great debate in France, we learned on Tuesday that the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, 91, had resorted to assisted suicide in Switzerland.
It exists “a path for an ethical application of active assistance in dying”, according to the CCNE, for whom the current law does not make it possible to respond to the requests of patients suffering from serious and incurable diseases causing refractory suffering, and whose vital prognosis is committed in the medium term. In other words, a new text…
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