Pascale, a nurse for 32 years, has never forgotten those few hours that "stuck her to the wall".
The last of this patient, fatally stricken and plunged so gently into "deep sedation" that he woke up a little.
A breath, "not now".
The family was lost going back and forth between the bedroom and the hallway, oscillating between resignation and the call of the guts commanding “one last kiss.
His testimony, delivered to government spokesperson Olivier Véran, in a solidarity restaurant in Narbonne (Aude), Thursday, December 1, strikes at the heart.
And says everything about the complexity of the debate which will open this Friday, December 9, with the launch of the Citizens' Convention on the end of life organized by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Cese).
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