Announcements on the end of life: “The risk is that only the terminally ill will be affected”

2024-03-10T20:57:58.041Z

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron gave the broad outlines of his end-of-life bill. “Assistance in dying” will be possible provided that the dying person is terminally ill. Neither “assisted suicide” nor “euthanasia”, but ‘assisted death under certain strict conditions’, summarizes the head of state. The bill should be presented to the Council of Ministers in April and would result in a system without equivalent in the world, he said.

Emmanuel Macron gave the broad outlines of his end-of-life bill. “Assistance in dying” will be possible provided that the