Guillaume Cuchet, professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, looks at the anthropological revolution that a law on euthanasia would represent and the search for a “
new art of dying”
for baby boomers.
In 2021, he published
Does Catholicism still have a future in France?
(Threshold).
LE FIGARO.
- Among the signatories of the "manifesto of the 109", we find Daniel Cohn-Bendit, figure of May 68, and celebrities of the 1970s who represented emancipation, the protest against authority.
Is campaigning for euthanasia an outcome of the libertarian movement of May 68?
Guillaume CUCHET.
- The death of Jean-Luc Godard, figure of May 68, by assisted suicide is symbolic from this point of view.
We remember the suicide of Jean-Paul Belmondo at the end of
Pierrot le fou,
in 1965. But, beyond the cultural revolution induced by May 68, it is the fate of a whole generation which took control of the “entry into life” in the 1960s and 1970s…
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