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End of life: developments in the law
The end-of-life bill arrives at the National Assembly on Monday May 27. Changes recently introduced in the text raise questions.
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The end-of-life bill arrives at the National Assembly on Monday May 27. Changes recently introduced in the text raise questions.
More flexible assistance in dying and new criteria for accessing it. Even before the text arrived in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, the deputies modified in committee a few days ago an essential sentence of the bill on the end of life. The criterion according to which patients must have their vital prognosis engaged in the short or medium term has been replaced by the notion of an illness in an advanced or terminal phase.
An expanded definition rather well received by defenders of the right to die. But this change in formulawe, which could extend assistance in dying to new patients, worries some caregivers and deputies. “We can never prejudge how an organism can react to an illness, there are serious illnesses which are curable. Let’s say that there is a red line which has been crossed”, confides Annie Genevard, LR deputy for Doubs. A first step for this bill, the discussion of which could last until the summer of 2025.
