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I could never bear what he went through!”
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“She left peacefully”, “The doctors did not listen to us”
… Intimate, often painful, sometimes heartbreaking, end-of-life situations experienced by loved ones inevitably resurface as soon as the subject of help is broached. active to die.
Accompaniment in illness, last moments spent at the bedside of a loved one or farewell to a parent or friend… They play a central role in everyone's personal convictions on euthanasia and assisted suicide.
As for Pascal, a young 62-year-old retiree, who has been campaigning in favor of a law on active assistance in dying since the death of his companion, Guy.
It was in June 2021 that a diagnosis of Charcot's disease came to upset their existence.
"From the start, we knew that death was inevitable and that Guy only had a life expectancy of two to five years, even if the evolution is not the same for each patient"
, says Pascal.
For a few months…
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