The National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) paves the way for assisted suicide.
While Emmanuel Macron wants to make progress on this highly sensitive societal reform from the start of his mandate, the body considers
"that there is a way for an ethical application of active assistance in dying",
in a new opinion made public .
tuesday.
For the CCNE, which took up the subject itself in June 2021, it is a question of providing a framework, “
ethical benchmarks
” in the event of a new law which decriminalizes active assistance in dying.
Still, this opinion constitutes a break with the "
third way
» chosen by France on the end of life, currently framed by the Claeys-Leonetti law.
Adopted in 2016, this text prohibits euthanasia and assisted suicide but instituted a right to "
sleep before dying so as not to suffer
" with
"deep and continuous sedation until death"
for terminally ill patients, in very great suffering, and whose vital prognosis is committed in the short term.
CCNE…
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