the bill will be presented in December to the Council of Ministers

The schedule is finally set. The end-of-life bill will finally be presented in December to the Council of Ministers, the office of the Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, announced on Friday October 6, confirming information from Opinion. “It will be in December, after a visit to the Council of State in a few weeks”adds the firm.

Emmanuel Macron received the pre-bill before “the end of summer”, deadline set at the beginning of April by the Head of State himself at the end of the work of the citizens’ convention on the end of life. The government, which mentioned “an important step forward by the end of September”, seemed to give himself additional time. And this vagueness on the calendar gave some observers the feeling of a desire to push back the deadline.

At this stage, the creation of “active assistance in dying” remains dependent on the decisions of the executive, which intends to articulate this new right with a palliative care development plan. Politically, if the left mainly defends assisted suicide and euthanasia, under conditions, the right and the extreme right are hostile to it, and the presidential majority reveals certain internal differences.