“You have to set a date, at one time or another, if you want to leave as you want to leave.
“Jacqueline Jencquel was talked about in 2018 when, in an interview with Konbini, she announced the programming of her death, for no obvious reason.
She finally killed herself in the first days of this spring 2022, indicates Liberation.
A chosen death: this is what this woman in good health claimed, who wanted to leave before knowing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or an end of life "in death".
Activist of the Association for the right to die with dignity (ADMD), Jacqueline Jencquel had initially decided to die in January 2020, in Switzerland, where medically assisted death is authorized.
“French legislators, when will you understand?
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“The birth of my grandson on my birthday was like a moment stolen from fate”, she justifies in the last note of her blog, published on March 29.
Jacqueline Jencquel finally committed suicide by absorbing a barbiturate at her home, if we are to believe her farewell text.
A gesture that she had to perform alone, contrary to what she would have liked, because of what she describes as “stupid law”: the one that punishes non-assistance to anyone in danger.
A good reason for the septuagenarian to call out to political decision-makers in her last public remarks: “French legislators, when are you going to understand that this freedom takes nothing away from anyone?
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Jacqueline Jencquel, mother of three children, seems to regret nothing in her life.
“I am old enough to die.
The danger is to age even more.
Addiction and decrepitude scare me much more than death", writes the author of a book entitled "Finish in style" (Paperback ed.) who had made her chosen end of life her fight until death. .
