The right to die with dignity. This is what Thomas Misrachi defended, invited on the set of Aurélie Casse in C the weekly. On Saturday January 27, 2024, the journalist came to present The Last Evening (Paperback, 2024)his work dedicated to the end of life, in which he notably retraces the last moments of his friend, Jacqueline Jencquel, activist for the right to die with dignity and who died in March 2022. “I don’t want EHPADs, and old age, and people who rip me off, I don’t want all that. I want to live as dignified as possible, for as long as possible.“began the journalist, who revealed that he wanted die at 75before adding: “I hope I’ll be healthy at that age, but I don’t want to face what comes next…“. To conclude, he had a word for his child: “My biggest problem is my little girlI will have to explain all this to her when she is an adult and when I am able to talk with her about all this”.
Many personalities speak out about the end of life
The debate on the end of life is at the heart of many discussions. In recent years, public figures have taken up the subject and brought this theme back to the forefront, including Françoise Hardy. Aged 79 and suffering from cancer, she wrote an open letter to Emmanuel Macron concerning the legalization of euthanasia in France, Sunday December 17, 2023, in The Sunday Tribune. Supported by her loved ones, the actress who was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, expressed her desire to, she said, “shorten suffering” : “From a certain moment when there is too much suffering and there is no hope, we must shorten the suffering. That’s the lesser of it. It’s human”. Other personalities have also spoken out on the subject, such as the singer Dave, who declared, on November 7, 2023 in Tele-Leisure : “Intellectually, I’m really ready for euthanasia“.