Emmanuel Macron announces a bill in April for highly regulated “assisted dying”. “With this text, we look death in the face,” he says.
The parliamentary process promises to be long and the outcome will probably not come before 2025. The bill will include measures from the ten-year which will be presented at the end of March to strengthen palliative care, which is generally considered insufficient in France. ‘Over the entire period, we are going to invest more than 1.6 billion euros in supportive care,’ says the president.