She is a familiar figure for France 5 viewers, every day at the helm of the Health Magazine. Almost a year after losing her mother, then her father, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, member of the French Academy, Marina Carrère d’Encausse faces a new ordeal. The man who shares her life, Antoine Mesnier, a doctor like her, suffers from a degenerative disease which doesn’t leave him much time…
“I just became a grandfather“
This Monday, March 11, 2024, he was also invited to another France television set, to talk about it. In Telematin on France 2, the 67-year-old man explained how he was doomed by Charcot’s disease. He, who campaigns for the right to die, alongside the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, also admitted that he had helped one of his friends to die by practicing clandestine euthanasia: “I saw his terrible agony, he was rotting everywhere. I completely assume“.
In all this drama, it was wonderful news that brought tears to his eyes. Very moved, he explained live: “It is very moving. I just became a grandfather“. And the host Johanna Ghiglia replied: “Ah! That’s it, you have the receipt, the text message you were waiting for!“, then replies.
“We want to live in these cases”
Antoine Mesnier, who recounted how the diagnosis of his illness had initially made him want to die, then admitted: “It’s a little girl, Lila. We want to live in these cases. As long as I move my arms, I would like to hug her. If I can’t, then I won’t. I’m taking the train later and I’m going to meet her quickly in Bordeaux!“A moving sequence, to watch again here.
Heartbreaking moment in #Telematin : Antoine Mesnier is a doctor and knows he is condemned by Charcot’s disease. Live, he learns that he is going to be a grandfather and cannot hold back his tears. pic.twitter.com/OaVOLYXZ8f
— Telematin (@telematin) March 11, 2024
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