a citizens’ convention to regulate assisted suicide

At 68, Marie-Hélène has breast cancer that has metastasized to the brain and bone marrow. After six years of fighting, the disease won. She knows she is doomed. “We are waiting for the end since there is no more chemo possible”, she explains. Current law allows deep and continuous sedation until death. The patient must be at the end of his life and in great pain.

The ethics committee now judges that it is necessary to go further by authorizing active assistance in dying. A citizens’ convention must frame the future national debate. A waste of time for Marie-Hélène. “There are how many people who will die during these 4, 5 years and who will suffer the need to go abroad?”, she asks, stressing that you have to have the financial resources and the physical strength to go abroad. In 2015, Robert accompanied his sister Elisabeth to Switzerland, suffering from Charcot’s disease. An operation that was organized with great resentment for his family.