Our era is understated.
As Régis Debray wisely notes in
Le Dernier Souffle
, today
“to die means to leave, the morgue, resting place or departure room, disappearance, taking leave, euthanasia, active assistance in dying, suicide, assisted suicide ".
One could add that the beautiful word "agony
"
(which comes from the Greek "agon", the "combat") has completely disappeared from the vocabulary.
Death is no longer a fight, but a "freedom".
The debates on the "end of life" - an understatement here also significant - have been perpetually reopened for forty years, the law constantly having to adapt to stick more closely to societal aspirations.
From opinion polls to citizen conventions, the matter seems settled in advance: the winds of history are blowing, the French are for it, anyone who opposes the advance that would constitute the right to choose one's death is a reactionary confided in obsolete certainties.
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