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End of life: the fight of Loïc Résibois, suffering from Charcot’s disease and campaigning for assisted suicide
End of life: the fight of Loïc Résibois, suffering from Charcot’s disease and campaigning for assisted suicide
(France 2)
A married father, Loïc Résibois has been living with Charcot’s disease for two years. In six months, he has become totally dependent. “I am tired of this existence,” he confides, while he continues to campaign for the legalization of assisted suicide. Interview.
Loïc Résibois is just 47 years old. He suffers from Charcot’s disease, an incurable pathology which in two years has paralyzed all his muscles. “I am tired of this existence”he tells us from his chair with the help of a voice amplifier. “I don’t want to push my life past the breaking point”adds Loïc, who campaigns for active assistance in dying.
Totally dependent, he can no longer do without his respirator. “If we don’t live in this confinement, it’s not even imaginable”he emphasizes. In six months, the disease progressed very quickly. We met him at his home in Amiens last February and March. He was actively campaigning on social media to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia for people with incurable diseases.
Since our filming five days ago, his health has deteriorated significantly. He has asked to be sedated, with the hope that soon, terminally ill patients will be able to choose their end of life.