Alain Cocq, suffering from an incurable disease and who wanted to let himself die before reconsidering his decision, assured Thursday evening that he would continue to fight for the right to end his life with dignity.
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I do not want to relive what I lived (...) I do not want other people to reach this level of pain
", he declared during an intervention on the media in Civicio independent line.
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We are only asking for the right to have the right (...) I will fight to obtain it, I will commit myself so that each candidate in the next presidential election positions himself on the right to die with dignity
" , he added.
Alain Cocq, 57, suffers from an orphan disease which clogs his arteries and causes him intense suffering.
This activist for the right to die with dignity had stopped all treatment and food on Friday evening, after stumbling over the legal impossibility of obtaining an injection of barbiturates, requested "
on a compassionate basis
" from President Emmanuel Macron to shorten his suffering.
He finally agreed to be rehydrated and replenished in his room at Dijon University Hospital, where he was admitted Monday evening to receive palliative care after three and a half days of ordeal.
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It was my decision, my will was respected until the end
", he assured Thursday evening, explaining that his pains had become unbearable to him.
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