“She was entitled to something else.” Sandrine Rousseau shared on Tuesday, May 27 in BFMTV the story of the death of his mother who committed suicide.
A testimony that occurs a few hours after the adoption of the deputies of a bill on the aid to die, with 305 votes and 199 votes against. A text that defines the necessary conditions and criteria that lead to “authorize and accompany a person who expressed the request to resort to a lethal substance.”
A “shameful, precipitous and clandestine game”
The Paris deputy regrets that this help to die did not exist for his mother. “It would have been very different. She would have planned, my brother would have been there,” said Sandrine Rousseau. His mother suffered from cancer “for 18 years.”
“He had done all the treatments and had suffered the most difficult things and was fighting very bravely,” says Sandrine Rousseau. “She had decided not to die in the hospital. It was her choice and told us all,” recalls the elected ecologist.
“As it was not allowed to help her, she committed suicide,” continues Sandrine Rousseau, for whom it is a “shameful, precipitated and clandestine game.”
“He had told her to see her, and while she was on the train, she swallowed the pills so that when I got home I was already unconscious. I could not even say goodbye when she chose the day of her death,” shares the deputy in our antenna.
“I couldn’t even say goodbye. It is incredible violence. I will never overcome it,” Deplora Sandrine Rousseau, who judges that his mother “had the right to something else.”
From now on, the bill, adopted in the first reading of the deputies, must be examined in the Senate, dominated by law and the center, less favorable to this reform. The Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, believes that senators could examine the text in autumn before “a return to the National Assembly in early 2026”.
Source: BFM TV
