Tag: end of life
“Mr. President, your opinion on palliative care and active assistance in dying cannot be the only compass”
MDear President of the Republic, a year ago, on your initiative, the work of the citizens’ convention on the end of life (CCFV) began. In April 2023, when we submit…
Relaxed at first instance, a veterinarian who helped a loved one commit suicide found guilty on appeal
In May 2019, Philippe B., a veterinarian in the Angers region, helped Pascal G., a relative suffering from Charcot disease, to commit suicide. The latter, who wanted to be able…
Veterinarian guilty of helping friend commit suicide
A veterinarian, acquitted in May 2022 for forgery and use of forgery for having written false prescriptions allowing the suicide of a friend suffering from Charcot’s disease, was found guilty…
Why a new law on end of life? Understand in three minutes
Will assisted suicide and euthanasia soon be authorized in France? For the moment, Emmanuel Macron has not yet decided whether these notions will appear in the end-of-life bill expected by…
“Old people deserve better than a pile of scoops”
HAS At the start of the 2022 school year, the President of the Republic wanted to inaugurate a new form of public decision-making, by setting up a National Council for…
MEPs adopt proposals for old age but ask for “means”
Suspended since mid-April, the examination of a bill proposed by Emmanuel Macron on old age resumed, Monday, November 20, in the National Assembly with the adoption of new articles on…
At the AP-HP Clinical Ethics Center, delicate medical questions and collective answers
It is a charming room nestled under the attic of the Cochin hospital in Paris. To reach it, you have to go through the admissions hall, walk along a corridor,…
The “aging well” bill returns to the Assembly with the promise of a programming law on old age
At the Ministry of Health, delivery men dropped off chocolate eggs wrapped in silver paper containing small gifts on Friday, November 17. “It looks like the proposed “ageing well” law”,…
what does the current law say? Understand in three minutes
Will there be a reform of the law on the end of life? While the draft of this text was to be finalized at the end of summer 2023, it…
Emmanuel Macron is slow to decide on certain points of the bill
Emmanuel Macron during the 105th anniversary of the armistice of November 11, 1918 at the Arc de Triomphe, Saturday November 11, 2023, in Paris. KAMIL ZIHNIOGLU FOR “THE WORLD” Fourteen…
“It’s me who will remember it every day of my life”
Killing a patient: the question divides caregivers. While a bill on the end of life promised by Emmanuel Macron is still awaited, The world surveyed around ten doctors, a psychologist,…
“It is not necessary to wait for a situation of therapeutic failure to ask the question of a patient’s end of life”
Lhe debate on active assistance in dying is shaking up our conception of medicine. The National Academy of Medicine was able to express reservations with regard to this aid which…