These are intense moments of life, days of happiness torn from the harshness of the fight against illness.
“Little administrative miracles for a paper-heavy country like France,” summarizes Grégoire Lecalot, journalist and widower of Clémentine Vergnaud-Lecalot, a 31-year-old France info reporter who died of cancer on December 23 and author of the very beautiful podcast “Ma vie in the face of cancer.
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In France, end-of-life patients suffering from an incurable pathology can benefit from a right known as “marriage in extremis”.
An accelerated procedure which allows couples to unite quickly, often in the hospital, in front of an elected official, a civil registrar as well as the number of guests they wish.
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