The bill on “end of life” and “assisted dying” sent to the Council of State. Bill must be presented to Council of Ministers in April before arriving at the plenary session of the National Assembly on May 27 for a first reading.

The text lays the legal foundations for creating “support homes”, one of the priorities of the ten-year plan to strengthen palliative care that the executive must unveil by the end of March. The patient requests it “from a doctor” who examines his file, taking the advice of at least another doctor.