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End of life: “No legal text will resolve the situation”, says a psychiatrist
End of life: “No legal text will solve the problem”, says a psychiatrist
(franceinfo)
The end-of-life bill arrives at the National Assembly on Monday May 27. While changes have recently been introduced into the text, reaction in the 19/20 info from Sarah Dauchy, psychiatrist and president of the National Center for Palliative Care and End of Life.
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. But according to Sarah Dauchy, psychiatrist and president of the National Center for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, “no law will ever resolve all situations”. “It’s a major subject. For a year and a half, we’ve been talking a lot about the end of life even though it’s a taboo subject”she believes.
A first step for this bill, the discussion of which could last until the summer of 2025. “I think we must not forget that we are in a much broader set of laws, and in a commitment from society which talks about aid in dying, assisted suicide. I hope that we will especially talk about a day of choice of treatment, of ability to envisage the end of life There are a certain number of things to put in place.“, judges the psychiatrist.
