It’s a fight close to his heart. A woman committed to many causes, Line Renaud has made the right to die with dignity her hobbyhorse. While she celebrated her 94th birthday last July, the actress has a string of projects, has just been elevated to the dignity of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and will notably be back in the cinema in The Beautiful Race, by Christian Carion, with his great friend Dany Boon on September 21. His head is teeming with ideas, of course, but all this does not prevent him from thinking about the continuation and end of his final chapter.
Traumatized by the death of her mother, Line Renaud wants and demands that every Frenchwoman and every Frenchman be able to define the conditions of her own end. “Dying with dignity, wouldn’t that be normal? Today, we can choose our way of living but we cannot choose our way of dying. I can’t imagine dying in chainsshe explains in the columns of the newspaper The Parisian. If our life belongs to us, so must our death. I sincerely hope that this law will pass, and quickly. I can’t see people suffering. Twenty years ago, I notably accompanied my mother, who suffered from bowel disease, at the end of her life. She kept asking me, ‘Do something! I am deeply hurt !’ I couldn’t do anything, I didn’t have medicine strong enough for this kind of pain. I felt so bad.“
It’s inhuman to leave people like that
Will the government end up proving him right? Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 the launch of a broad citizen consultation on the end of life, with a view to a possible new “legal framework” by the end of 2023, after the publication of an opinion on the question of the National Consultative Ethics Committee. A relief, or at least a hope, for Line Renaud, who witnessed a new drama last year and did not come out unscathed.”My housekeeper’s mother diedshe says. It was impossible to see that. She was screaming in pain day and night. She kept repeating that she wanted to die. It’s inhuman to leave people like that…“
Find the full interview of Line Renaud in the newspaper The Parisian of September 13, 2022.