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Michel Houellebecq: "A civilization which legalizes euthanasia loses all rights to respect"
In the midst of the health crisis, when we have passed the peak of resuscitation of the second wave and that Parliament no longer has any influence on health policy, deputies saw fit to propose to the National Assembly a law providing for legalization assisted suicide, renamed no longer "death with dignity" but "free end of life".
The law was not adopted due to the mobilization of LR deputies, but this week was the occasion for a lively debate on the profound bioethical issue of euthanasia.
In Michel Houellebecq's novel
La Carte et le Territoire
, the narrator, Jed, whose father was going to be euthanized in Switzerland by the company "Dignitas" already evoked
"the regression of civilization represented by the widespread recourse to euthanasia, (…) The moral superiority of palliative care ”
.
The writer, little inclined to public interventions on topical subjects, took up the pen in an exclusive forum at Le Figaro to explain
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