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Prime Minister Gabriel Atal announced the examination of the bill on “end of life” from May 27 in the National Assembly.
Emmanuel Macron unveiled this Sunday his “French end-of-life model”: “assisted dying” which should allow certain patients, under “strict conditions”, to receive a “lethal substance”.
The bill on “end of life”, which will include highly regulated “assisted dying”, will be examined in plenary session at the National Assembly from May 27, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Monday on X. President Emmanuel Macron finally announced on Sunday that the bill would open up for adults the "possibility of requesting assistance in dying under certain strict conditions", in particular that the candidates be "capable of full and complete discernment", which excludes, for example, psychiatric patients or cases of Alzheimer's.
The bill, which must be transmitted within ten days to the Council of State, will concern people suffering from an "incurable" pathology with a "short or medium term vital prognosis", and suffering "refractory" suffering that we cannot relieve.
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This “help” will be conditional on the “collegial” opinion of the medical team within 15 days.
The patient may absorb the deadly product alone or, when unable to do so, particularly in the case of certain neurodegenerative diseases such as Charcot's disease, with the assistance of a member of the medical profession or of a volunteer whom he has designated.
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Expecting resistance from the right of the hemicycle, the Prime Minister recalled on long awaited” and constitutes “progress”.