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Between doubts and conviction, citizens faced with active assistance in dying

2023-03-30T17:19:31.245Z


TESTIMONIALS - As the end-of-life convention ends this Sunday, they tell how they formed an opinion. Euthanasia? Assisted suicide? Both? Do not change anything in the law? In view of the results of the polls in favor of active assistance in dying, one could predict what the opinion of the 185 French people drawn by lot to form the citizens' convention would be. De facto, even before the return of their work, this Sunday, we already know that 75% of the participants are in favor of the opening of


Euthanasia?

Assisted suicide?

Both?

Do not change anything in the law?

In view of the results of the polls in favor of active assistance in dying, one could predict what the opinion of the 185 French people drawn by lot to form the citizens' convention would be.

De facto, even before the return of their work, this Sunday, we already know that 75% of the participants are in favor of the opening of active assistance in dying.

Beyond that, everyone agrees that they will emerge from this exercise with a much more complex point of view than on the first day.

Initially rather favorable to a change in the law

"without knowing much about it"

, Isabelle G., 65, former director of an adapted education section, went over to the camp of the "against" mid-January.

The hearing of experts on euthanasia in the Netherlands turned his vision upside down.

“When I learned that an elderly woman suffering from loneliness could request euthanasia, it made me jump.

I thought to myself that I didn't want this...

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Source: lefigaro

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