“Nothing is decided yet.”
This is what emerges from the dinner on the end of life organized Thursday evening at the Élysée according to the chief rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia.
In the white and gold salon on the first floor of the presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron had brought together around fifteen personalities, including six representatives of cults.
In September, the president had promised the actress Line Renaud to change the law
“from 2023”
.
A promise that has sunk into the abyss of reflection on death?
It was in any case not reiterated Thursday evening, by the Head of State.
Life drive, death drive... Emmanuel Macron, in the center of the large oval table, preferred to evoke the Freudian concept of
"battle between Eros and Thanatos"
rather than giving clues to his intimate conviction.
Rather than certainties, he preferred the questions: who is responsible for the decision to hasten death, who must make the gesture, can there be a "claim" right, is there a need for a paradigm shift?
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