The deputies approved on Monday, April 28 in the Commission on Monday, April 28, the key article of the Bill of Life Law, which defines a series of strict criteria that open the right to patients to use “help to 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, whatever the cause, 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.
The deputies remained very close to the initial version of the bill for Deputy Olivier Falorni (Modern Group), adding only to write the formula “Whatever the cause”. The intention of the elected officials in the origin of this modification is not to exclude the serious conditions of accidental origin from the permit.
The Social Affairs Committee began on April 11, the “bill related to the end of life” on April 11, which almost identified the bill at the end of life in the spring of 2024 by the Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin, since he had left debates in committee and session. The deputies had failed to vote, interrupted in their work for dissolution.
The opinion of the has waited
In its initial version, the bill provided that the vital forecast will begin “in the short or medium term”, the difficulty is to know what this notion of “medium term” covers. An opinion of the high health authority on the subject is expected before the exam during the meeting, scheduled from May 12.
The parliamentarians of the modem and the horizons tried to restore this formulation, without success. LR deputies beg them to restrict the field again by providing that the vital prognosis is dedicated to “in the short term”. The emergency doctor Philippe Juvvin (LR) was concerned that editorial staff refers to people who may still have several years of life.
Olivier Falorni pointed out the vagueness of the concept of “in the short and medium term” again, and estimated that the only “short term” would not bring a substantial change compared to the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016, which establishes a “deep and continuous sedation” until the death of patients with a “serious and incurable affection.”
Source: BFM TV
