VIDEO. Alain films his end of life live to warn about "the right to choose his death"

"The journey of death" is reserved for the better-off.

Alain, he lives with the few cents of his disability pension.

Affected by an orphan disease gnawing at him from the inside, he does not have the means to afford the suicide assistance offered by Belgian and Swiss hospitals.

So, after two years of suffering in palliative care, he decided to display his ordeal to as many people as possible and broadcast his end of life live on Facebook.

A means of denouncing "therapeutic relentlessness" which "prevents him from leaving with dignity" but above all, of claiming the right to "choose his death".

After questioning Emmanuel Macron and discussing with the health adviser of the Elysée, Anne-Marie Armanteras-de Saxcé, he made his decision.

Friday evening September 4, Alain will stop eating and hydrating, in the hope that the authorities will give him a powerful sedative.

"What he wants is what is done in Switzerland," explains Sophie Medjeberg, vice-president of the Handi association, but not only!

And spokesperson for Alain Cocq, when the latter is too weak to respond to journalists.

"He wants a lethal dose, a pill that you swallow to go away quietly."

"I don't want to leave like a vegetable that is left to perish"

"Alain is locked in a body that makes him suffer day and night, forced to take powerful sleeping pills to have the right to a normal life, [...] he can no longer bear this decline", says the one who watches over him.

For the past 34 years, Alain Cocq's disease has gradually destroyed the walls of his blood vessels and arteries.

To hope to benefit, as he wishes, from the "deep and continuous sedation until death", permitted by the Leonetti law, the patient's vital prognosis must be committed in the short term.

However, this is not the case of Alain who campaigns from his bed to extend this remedy to all those who are in agony.

"I do not want to leave like a vegetable that is left to perish," he announced in his latest Facebook post.

"My mind remains and will remain free, and this until my last breath", assures Alain, drawing on his last strength to reassure "his friends" who have followed him throughout his fight for life.