"We want to rediscover this strange morality which sanctified life until its last hour."
This verse by Michel Houellebecq sheds its beauty on the frontal fight that the author of
Anéantir
leads against euthanasia.
The theme hangs over his latest novel.
For years this subject has inspired the writer to take positions of great force.
A column in
Le Monde
after the death of Vincent Lambert (
"he was not even at the end of his life",
he lamented)
,
another, last April, in
Le Figaro
, when the Assembly was debating a proposal on assisted suicide.
Houellebecq's anger mounted a notch since she envisioned nothing less than the euthanasia of a company which would legalize euthanasia:
"Here I am going to have to be very explicit: when a country - a society , a civilization - comes to legalize euthanasia, it loses in my eyes any right to respect.
It therefore becomes not only legitimate, but desirable to destroy it;
so that other ...
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