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Euthanasia: 'False red lines'

2023-06-14T19:24:37.592Z

Highlights: Wherever it has been legalized, euthanasia is increasingly used, in a framework that is always expanding. In the Netherlands, it is accessible to children; in Belgium, it also covers persons declaring 'unbearable mental suffering' The criterion of "imminent end of life" has been questioned in Canada, which just a few days ago brought disability and neurodegenerative diseases into its field.Read alsoEnd of life: how the government will prepare the law on active assistance in dying.


EDITORIAL IN LE FIGARO - Wherever it has been legalized, euthanasia is increasingly used, in a framework that is always expanding.


The most pragmatic of entrepreneurs would not deny the approach: to better understand the challenges of the law on the end of life announced "by the end of the summer" by Emmanuel Macron, the caregivers have carried out a "benchmark" in due form: they have studied the legislation and practices beyond our borders, surveyed their counterparts around the world.

If the overview allows the height of view, it reveals, above all, a movement of constant expansion. Wherever it has been legalized, euthanasia is increasingly used, in a framework that is always expanding. In the Netherlands, it is accessible to children; in Belgium, it also covers persons declaring 'unbearable mental suffering'. The criterion of "imminent end of life" has been questioned in Canada, which just a few days ago brought disability and neurodegenerative diseases into its field...

Read alsoEnd of life: how the government will prepare the law on active assistance in dying

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