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End of life: "Discourse on the trompe-l'oeil method"

2022-12-08T18:53:07.149Z


COUNTERPOINT - Does the humility displayed by Emmanuel Macron make it possible to appease minds or deaden consciences?


It is Elisabeth Borne who opens this new citizens' convention, but Emmanuel Macron would like to intervene quickly on the subject.

Not to reveal his intimate convictions on the end of life, but to frame, as tightly as possible, the method.

This question haunts him.

The man of "at the same time" would like so much to be able to change the current situation without opening the floodgates wide.

Returning from Rome, where he had come to discuss this project with Pope Francis, he confided:

"We cannot let people commit suicide in atrocious conditions, but we cannot let people believe that if we pass a law , assisted suicide or euthanasia will go from total prohibition to unconditional authorization.

A broad definition

So, the method above all: to temper the ardor of some, those who claim a genuine "right" to choose the moment of one's death, and to appease the concerns of others, those who fear the pressures on vulnerable people and deplore that not everything is done for...

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Source: lefigaro

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