The Senate Social Affairs Committee has worked at length on this issue. The examination of this bill will be carried out in a context where the Clayes-Leonetti law is poorly implemented.

The stakes are high and challenge health professionals, families affected by the disease and also the fundamentals of our society. The bill was announced for the summer of 2023. But the successive delays in the schedule were coupled with uncertainties about the form: one bill announced, then two to dissociate the question of palliative care from that of “help for…