Jonathan Denis asks elected officials on France Bleu Mayenne to look into a new law to regulate the end of life. “We have more and more cries of alarm”, he assures, then qiu’Emmanuel Macron wants to launch a citizens’ convention on the subject.
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“We are asking our parliamentarians today not to turn a blind eye“, declared Monday September 12 on France Bleu Mayenne Jonathan Denis, president of the Association for the right to die with dignity (ADMD), while Emmanuel Macron must specify Tuesday September 13 the contours of the citizens’ convention on the subject. before a possible law.
“We have already lost time because there have been a lot of conventions. We really need to move on“, he adds. The representative of the association denounces in particular “a real lack of political courage“on this subject in France.”I think we listened a little too much to religious representatives. By dint of wanting to impose their ideas on others all the time, these people have created a society where there is absolutely no progress and where people are left on the side of the road.“, assures the president of the ADMD
Jonathan Denis adds that “you have today in France people who are forced to go into exile in Belgium or in Switzerland” to die. “Alas, we have more and more requests, more and more calls, more and more cries of alarm“, he advances.
“We are not opening our eyes to what should be done, which is to say a new law.”
ADMD Presidentin France Bleu Mayenne
Today, it is the Claeys-Leonetti law which governs the end of life of terminally ill patients in France. Adopted in 2016, after a first version in 2005, it prohibits euthanasia and assisted suicide, but allows “deep and continuous sedation until death” for terminally ill patients in very great suffering, whose life prognosis is engaged “in the short term”. During the face-to-face campaign, the Head of State announced his desire to establish a “citizens’ convention” for “to advance” on the subject “calmly“.