This is an approach of unprecedented magnitude.
And a big warning.
While Emmanuel Macron opened the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide at the start of the school year, thirteen professional organizations and learned societies, representing 800,000 caregivers from all walks of life, proclaim with one voice their refusal to participate in "active
aid to die".
In a call that
Le Figaro
reveals, they explain how their job is
"incompatible with the practice of medically administered death"
.
Injecting a lethal substance into a patient would be
“a major ethical shift”
which would
“upset the definition of care” and “weaken teams”,
alert these caregivers in an ethical reflection of around twenty pages.
In this document, rather than proposing yet another debate of ideas, they have chosen to confront the concrete consequences of assisted suicide and euthanasia on their profession, to understand what they would be likely to accept or not.
“The fear of transforming the meaning of our profession”
Heavyweight of…
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