The deputies began on Friday, April 12 at the Committee on Friday, April 12, the examination of the bill related to the end of life and approved the creation of a right to help die, expanding the cases where the caregiver can administer the lethal substance.
The deputies approved an amendment by Elise Leboucher (LFI) that gives the person who wishes to use help to die the freedom to choose between the self -administering of the lethal product and the administration for a doctor or a nurse.
The initial text provided that it was only possible when the patient “is not physically capable of proceeding.”
“There is no agitation of the text balance”
The rapporteur Olivier Falorni (modern group) gave an opinion of wisdom, believing that this change “would not alter the balance of the text.”
A change of “all except trivial”, replied to deputy Lr Patrick Hetzel: “We are in legal supervision that is no longer of the same nature” with a “text of assisted suicide and euthanasia, and no longer attended suicide and an exceptional euthanas in a certain number of limited cases,” he said, worrying about a matter of the text.
The deputies, on the other hand, rejected, as the Rapporteur invited them, amendments of Danielle Simonnet (environmentalist and social group) that would have authorized the help to die based on the early directives of patients who can no longer express their will.
Five cumulative criteria
At night, the deputies began to examine the key article of the bill, which defines the criteria that open the right to help die.
These five cumulative criteria are: they are at least 18 years old; French or resident in France; that suffers from a “serious and incurable affection, which involves the vital prognosis, in the advanced or terminal phase”; The latter that caused “physical or psychological suffering” refractory to treatments or unbearable; Being able to express your will in a free and enlightened way.
A different definition of what the bill proceeded by the text of Mr. Falorni. Brought to the spring of 2024 by the Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin, provided that this vital prognosis is involved “in the short or medium term”, the difficulty is what covers this notion of “medium term”.
An opinion of the high health authority on the subject “in a few days” is expected, before the exam during the session, Mrs. Vautrin said on Wednesday during her audience by the deputies.
The latter separated at midnight without having decided this crucial point. Their exchanges will resume after parliamentary holidays on April 28.
Source: BFM TV
