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Jean-Luc Godard during a press conference in Cannes in 1988
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French-Swiss star director Jean-Luc Godard, who died on Tuesday, received assisted suicide.
Patrick Jeanneret, a family adviser, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency that "Mr. Godard has taken legal help in Switzerland to say goodbye voluntarily."
The reason for this was his numerous illnesses.
The French newspaper Liberation, which first reported on the death, quotes another unnamed person who was close to the family: "He wasn't sick, he was just exhausted.
So he made the decision to end it.
It was his decision and it was important to him that it became known." This was confirmed by another person close to the late director.
Godard's family had previously announced that the director had died peacefully at home in Switzerland, surrounded by loved ones, at the age of 91.
An official funeral service is not planned.
Euthanasia happened to be a big issue in France on Tuesday, as the Ethics Council cautiously advocated active euthanasia under strict conditions for the first time.
President Emmanuel Macron announced a public debate on this, which could lead to a new law in the coming year.
Active euthanasia is prohibited in France.
However, doctors can use drugs to numb terminally ill patients deeply until death occurs.
Godard was born in Paris in 1930 and held both citizenships.
He has lived in Switzerland since the 1970s.
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