She once again spoke of his death.
Faced with Audrey Crespo-Mara, in the show “Sept à quatre” broadcast Sunday evening on TF1, Line Renaud spoke about her last wishes and what she will leave behind after her death.
A figure in the fight for the right to die with dignity, the actress, who published her autobiography “Thank you life!” at the age of 95!
», explained in particular “preparing” for his farewell.
“If I have to suffer, I want to leave right away.
This is my ultimate freedom.
Choose your death,” explained the actress on camera.
And his choice is already made.
She wishes to die at home, in her house in La Jonchère, in Rueil-Malmaison (which, as she has already planned, will be sold and the proceeds of the sale will be donated to science through her foundation).
“I won't move from here.
It’s very clear, I want to stay here, be in my bed, in my room with the lovely view of Paris and die here,” she specifies.
As soon as the cameras turn on, she lights up.
Line Renaud has been in our lives for so many years that you would think she was immortal.
However, at 95 years old, she writes us one last letter.
“Because one day you have to go and just be ready for it.
» A book in the form of a farewell.
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“Everything is ready, everything is planned, from the departure from here (
from his house
) to the arrival in Saint-Sulpice”, “even the list of guests”, indicates Line Renaud, who announced in June to end her acting career (started in 1946!).
“It’s natural for me” to prepare for death, she continues.
“Everything is organized.
» “I see myself at home with the people who have been around me all the time…” continues the actress.
And the singer of “My cabin in Canada” notes: “What bothers me a lot is that I still have things to do.
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This is not the first time that Line Renaud has mentioned her death.
“We chose our life, we must be able to choose our death,” she explained in October in an interview with Le Parisien.
“Have you ever imagined yourself organizing your own exit from the stage?
» they asked him.
“We take two pills, one that puts you to sleep and the other that goes poof, bam!
We simply must not embarrass those who live next to me, so that they are accused of anything,” she replied.
The bill on active assistance in dying will be examined “before summer”, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal declared last week, while promising to “considerably” strengthen palliative care units.
At the end of December, Emmanuel Macron indicated that he would present the "contours of the text" on this active assistance in dying "in February" after the announcement "in January" of a ten-year strategic plan on palliative care, still not revealed to this day.
“Before the summer, we will examine a bill on active assistance in dying,” underlined Gabriel Attal in his general policy declaration, without specifying whether the text would be presented beforehand as planned in February.