Arthur de Laborde, edited by Laura Laplaud
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11:15 a.m., September 06, 2022
He had made it a campaign promise: to debate a law on the right to die with dignity. On the occasion of the presentation of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor to the singer and actress, Line Renaud, Emmanuel Macron declared that “it was the time to do it, so we will do it”.
“Your fight for the right to die with dignity resembles you and obliges us. Dictated by kindness, requirement and this unique intuition that it is the moment to do, then we will do.” This little sentence from Emmanuel Macron has been talked about a lot since last Friday. The president pronounced it on the occasion of the presentation of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor to the singer and actress, Line Renaud.
A little later, he even went further by announcing that a law would be passed in 2023, after extensive consultation with all stakeholders.
A law on the right to die with dignity in 2023?
The Élysée confirms that the end of life must be the subject of a great debate, which was also a campaign promise from Emmanuel Macron. On the other hand, the entourage of the president minimizes the scope of the statements he would have made a little later in a private setting by ensuring that a law on the right to die with dignity would be passed next year.
The various-left deputy of Charente Maritime Olivier Falorni nevertheless assures that this is indeed the commitment made by the Head of State: “We reminded him that we could not wait any longer. He replied that he would not it was not a question of postponing this great law always further, but of making it in 2023. We will see what place I occupy in this legislative process. In any case, he knows my availability, and then I believe my legitimacy, to elsewhere he told me: he considers that I ‘obviously have great legitimacy on the subject’.”
Towards the decriminalization of euthanasia?
Oliver Falorni is already the author of a bill which came up against the wall of parliamentary obstruction last year. A text modeled on the Belgian model to which Emmanuel Macron said he was in favor since it is based on the decriminalization of euthanasia, without making it a right. The text also sets up active assistance in dying, based on the sole will of the patient, according to strict criteria. To benefit from it, you must in particular be suffering from a serious and incurable disease, without hope of cure.