This is a shocking new message.
This Sunday evening, Charles Bietry, 80 years old, published a short text on “assisted dying” under “strict conditions” will be presented to the Council of Ministers next April.
The former president of PSG, sports boss of Canal + and France Télévisions, revealed in April 2023 that he was suffering from Charcot's disease.
In a moving interview with L'Équipe, he explained that he had registered in Switzerland to resort to assisted suicide.
This Sunday, Charles Biétry wrote: "I have managed to live well, I don't want to die badly.
Charcot's disease has already deprived me of the use of my legs and of speech.
Soon it will be breathing accompanied by suffering for me and mine.
This law, a first step, can offer us freedom and dignity.
THANKS "
I managed to live well, I don't want to die badly.
Charcot's disease has already deprived me of the use of my legs and speech. Soon it will be breathing accompanied by suffering for me and mine. This law, a first step, can offer us freedom and dignity. Thank you
— Charles Bietry (@charlesbietry) March 10, 2024
During his interview with L'Equipe, Charles Biétry had already referred to the end-of-life bill which was then to be presented to parliamentarians by the end of the summer.
He had thus argued that, if he could see this law “born”, he would prefer to schedule his death at the Vannes hospital or at his home, in Carnac, in Morbihan, “rather than illegally in Switzerland”.
The text which will be presented to the Council of Ministers in April for examination in Parliament, as Emmanuel Macron explains this Sunday, is therefore an important step forward.
The Head of State, however, set four conditions to be able to request this “assisted death”: being of age, being capable of full and complete discernment, being suffering from an incurable illness and a “vital prognosis committed to short or medium term" and finally, being prey to suffering - physical or psychological - which is refractory (that is to say which cannot be relieved).
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Last May, Charles Biétry was invited to the PSG training center where he appeared on crutches.
“When it no longer works, I want to stop,” he also told L’Equipe.
I don't want my wife to come to the hospital every day to see a mummy with tubes, who won't have a word for her.
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