Assisted dying will be possible due to “pathology’, not “age”, assures Vautrin. “If the patient is no longer able to show his discernment, to ask and to judge, that is not possible” “Therefore no Alzheimer’s, it is excluded,” she reaffirmed, in particular in response to a listener.

The minister declared on France Inter "very aware of the difficulty" on "an extremely heavy, extremely important text"