Emmanuel Macron asked, Monday, April 3, the government and Parliament to prepare together a bill on the "end of life" before the end of the summer.
The head of state was speaking during a speech at the Élysée, where he received the members of the citizens' convention on the end of life.
The convention, which brought together 184 participants, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a form of conditional active assistance in dying (AMA), according to its final report released Sunday after three months of discussions.
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The current legislation on the end of life is set by the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016. This law authorizes "prolonged and continuous sedation", in other words a permanent plunge into unconsciousness, for patients in a desperate state in the short term and whose suffering is intolerable. But it does not go so far as to authorize "active assistance in dying", that is to say either an act of euthanasia by a caregiver, or assisted suicide.
With AFP
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