Louis Puybasset is head of the anesthesia-resuscitation department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. Yves-Marie Doublet is a lecturer in the ethics area of the APHP.
We were expecting a major dependency law.
It is the legalization of euthanasia, even assisted suicide, which is announced.
Politically constituting a “progressive” marker, this project draws its inspiration from a historical claim in favor of the autonomy of the individual.
It challenges palliative care's ability to manage intolerable pain in all its aspects, physical or psychological.
Without explicitly relying on it, the project also suggests the savings that its implementation could bring to a society unable to release sufficient budgetary resources for palliative care and old age.
This project marks a societal rupture, since in two different forms, it amounts to taking life.
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