Alain Cocq -
AFP
"I was no longer able to lead this fight".
Affected by an incurable disease, Alain Cocq, who wanted to let himself die before being hospitalized, finally agreed to be rehydrated and replenished, he said on Wednesday, announcing that he could return home “Within seven to ten days”.
Alain Cocq, hospitalized in palliative care at Dijon University Hospital after three and a half days of ordeal, assured that "within a few minutes", he would "not have been there to speak".
A return home next week
Alain Cocq confirmed that he was considering a "return home within 7 to 10 days", as he announced earlier on his Facebook account.
"The time to recover a little and to set up a home hospitalization team," he said.
Affected by an orphan disease that clogs his arteries and causes him intense suffering, this activist for the right to die with dignity had stopped all treatment and food on Friday evening after having stumbled over the legal impossibility of obtaining an injection of barbiturates, requested "on a compassionate basis" from Emmanuel Macron to shorten his suffering.
"The fight continues but in a different way"
Monday evening, the Dijonnais "suffered too much" and was hospitalized "after an intervention of the Samu", had indicated Sophie Medjeberg, lawyer and vice-president of the association Handi-Mais-Pas-Que, appointed as agent by the Dijonnais for assist him in his end of life.
Alain “is recovering from the wild;
the fight continues, but in a different way, ”she declared on Wednesday, expressing concern that“ her fundamental rights have been respected ”.
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