Minister of Health François Braun reserved on a law on "active assistance in dying" He believes that the priority should go to palliative care. Current legislation allows caregivers to irreversibly sedate patients close to death.
But it does not go so far as to authorize assisted suicide or euthanasia. The minister says he is "convinced that if we succeed, there will be much fewer requests for assistance in dieing" He does not want it to be imposed as an obligation on doctors.