Sat Aug 26, 2023 – 11:10 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — A Franceinfo radio news interview on August 14 with Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the government minister responsible for health professions, stated that “all avenues are open” as the French government drafts a new end-of-life law that will be presented to Emmanuel Macron at the end of the summer.
Le Bodo stated that she did not want to use the terms euthanasia and assisted suicide. The report stated:
[S]he did not want the terms ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’ to appear in the law. They do not seem to be retained by the minister to date: ‘For the moment, no, I say well for the moment. Having the word death is important. Active aid in dying, for example, contains the word death,’ she underlined. A vital prognosis of less than a year and ‘refractory’ suffering as conditions. [Google translated]
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Le Bodo then states what criteria are being proposed for euthanasia:
To obtain active assistance in dying, the patient must meet several eligibility criteria. The person’s prognosis must be initiated within ‘between 6 and 12 months,’ according to
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