End of life: the national academy of surgery in favor of “assisted suicide”
While a future law on the end of life is fueling numerous debates, the National Academy of Surgery has expressed ...
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End of life: why there will not be a new law before 2025
The text was to be presented to the Council of Ministers at the end of 2023. But a new timetable ...
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Michel Onfray and the end of life: “Let the dying die as they wish”
A new law on the end of life prepared by the government should be debated in Parliament during the year ...
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Assisted suicide‚ euthanasia: what are the differences?
© Shutterstock / Andrey BurmakinFor more than 20 years, legislative developments have contributed to strengthening autonomy and solidarity around the ...
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End of life: why is the term euthanasia not mentioned in the bill?
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, Minister for Territorial Organization and Health Professions, will bring forward the end-of-life bill which must be presented ...
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The end of life in history: from acceptance of the natural cycle to active assistance in dying
The end-of-life bill must be presented to Emmanuel Macron “at the end of summer”. It will include three components: palliative ...
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Euthanasia: the Netherlands authorizes it for children under 12
The Netherlands will expand access to euthanasia for children under 12 suffering from a fatal disease causing "desperate and unbearable ...
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Assisted suicide, active euthanasia: a call to change the law on the end of life
In a column published in the OBS, nearly a hundred French personalities call for reform of the law on the ...
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Euthanasia: Line Renaud signs a forum in favor of “active assistance in dying”
© Shutterstock"Why endure cruel agony when death can deliver you from a life that is no more than painful survival ...
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In Belgium, a survivor of the Brussels attacks has been euthanized
A few months ago, Belgian law authorized the euthanasia of Shanti De Corte, a twenty-something who had survived the attack ...
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Vincent Lambert: his “irreversible chronic vegetative state” confirmed by experts
Vincent Lambert's condition, lying on a hospital bed since a car accident in 2008, is not improving as experts confirm ...
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Françoise Fabian affected after her father’s euthanasia: what is achromotrichia?
In the show C to you, the actress returned to the appearance of her lock of white hair. She would ...
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End of life: new recommendations from the Academy of Medicine
The knowledge by health professionals of the provisions adopted for the end of life is still insufficient in France according ...
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End of life: what could the bill on active euthanasia change?
It is this Thursday, April 8 that the National Assembly must examine the bill for a "free and chosen end ...
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End of life: Alain Cocq accepts palliative care
Four days after beginning his agony, Alain Cocq, suffering from an incurable disease, accepted palliative care and still wishes to ...
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Euthanasia refused, Alain Cocq wants to publicize his agony
Suffering from an incurable degenerative orphan disease, Alain Cocq did not obtain the possibility of benefiting from “active assistance” to ...
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“So that he is the last”: François Lambert delivers his version on the case that bears his name
François Lambert, a young lawyer and nephew of Vincent Lambert, released his book "Pour qu'il être le dernier" yesterday, almost ...
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The Federation of Doctors calls for the right to administer a sedative to end-of-life patients
In an interview with Le Parisien, the president of the Federation of Physicians of France claims the right to be ...
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End of life: what does the Leonetti law say?
After a long legal battle between his wife and his parents, Vincent Lambert died on Thursday. The Leonetti law, however, ...
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10 to 20 murders: the “deacon of death” killed old people by injecting them with air
Considered the "deacon of death" by the local media, a 61-year-old Belgian is accused of having killed at least 10 ...
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Marwa case: judgment under advisement on the continuation of care
The judges must decide for or against the continuation of care for Marwa, a baby in a coma. They heard ...
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The first euthanasia of a minor took place in Belgium
For the first time since a 2014 law, a minor has been euthanized at his request in Belgium, reports a ...
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Euthanasia: sick, she challenges the presidential candidates in an open letter
© ThinkstockAnne Bert is 59 years old and suffers from Charcot's disease. Also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou ...
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Psychogenic death: you can die of despair
Still poorly understood and little recognized by the scientific community, psychogenic death is not suicide, but the abandonment of life ...
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A petition for euthanasia signed by 260,000 people
© Thinkstock260,000 people signed a petition asking for the authorization of assisted suicide andeuthanasia according to the daily Liberation which ...
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Vincent Lambert case: a new medical expertise ordered before a possible final stop of care
The administrative court asked for a new medical expertise to "determine the clinical picture" of Vincent Lambert, before ruling on ...
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The Reims University Hospital is in favor of stopping Vincent Lambert’s care: how is this practice going?
The Reims University Hospital (Marne) has once again declared itself in favor of stopping treatment for Vincent Lambert, hospitalized in ...
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Euthanasia: 156 deputies demand a text of law “without delay”
156 deputies, including the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the ex-ecologist Barbara Pompili published a column on Tuesday to ...
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End of life: the importance of the choice of words to better support patients
How to talk to patients and their families about the end of life? What terms to use? A study from ...
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The French want to change the law on assisted reproduction, surrogacy, euthanasia and genetic manipulation
Following Emmanuel Macron's campaign promises on the legalization of assisted reproduction for all, and prior to the revision of the ...
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