In 2003, she asked nurse Chantal Chanel to inject potassium chloride into one of her patients. in the end stage of pancreatic cancer.
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The doctor Laurence Tramois, known for having euthanized a terminally ill patient with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and who had been sentenced for this in 2007, died at the age of 50, reports Saturday, January 1, France Bleu Périgord.
Figure of the fight for a decriminalization of euthanasia in France, the one who practiced today in her office in Saint-Astier (Dordogne), had been sentenced in Périgueux in 2007 during a nationwide trial. In August 2003, then stationed at Saint-Astier hospital, Laurence Tramois asked nurse Chantal Chanel to inject potassium chloride into one of her patients, aged 65, who was in terminal stage, suffering from pancreatic cancer.
She had always admitted knowing that the dose she had prescribed was lethal, and spoke of a “act of love, of respect”. “I had the feeling, not to kill her, but to help her make this passage. It was the cancer that killed her”, she had explained before the Assize Court in 2007. The nurse Chantal Chanel had meanwhile been acquitted.
In March 2007, she published a book, Help me ! Pleading for a dignified death, and this case had launched a lively debate in France around the end of life. 2,134 caregivers had then published a manifesto in which they admitted having performed euthanasia themselves. Before the 2007 presidential election, an appeal was also published, asking candidates to commit to “decriminalization under strict conditions of euthanasia, in certain extreme cases”. The funeral of Doctor Laurence Tramois-Gaillard will take place this Tuesday, January 4, at 3 p.m., at the church of Saint-Astier.