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How can we "
at the same time"
pay tribute to Robert Badinter for having abolished the death penalty and be offended that our country is slow to legalize the deliberate act of causing death.
Where does our fascination with the right to ask for death from others come from?
Is our fear of dying badly, of being mistreated in our last moments, abandoned by everyone, so strong that we prefer to anticipate our death rather than experience it?
I imagine the trouble that this paradox would generate for François Mitterrand.
He who had alerted me, two years before his death, to his fear that the left would one day decide to legalize euthanasia and thus come into conflict with the values that it had always defended.
In a democratic country, a law cannot make such a right sacred!
As long as I am alive, I will oppose crossing the red line
François Mitterrand, on a law on euthanasia
François Mitterrand was opposed to a law on euthanasia.
A visionary, he measured the dangers, the inevitable deviations.
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Human nature is not only inhabited by good people…
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