2023-10-07 06:36:50
End of suspense. The end of life bill will be presented “in December” during a council of ministers and “debate in the National Assembly in the first quarter of 2024”, announced, Friday October 6, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo. The Minister Delegate in charge of territorial organization and health professions detailed the outlines of the text during a round table entitled “End of life, an endless debate? “, as part of the Rendez-vous de l’histoire, a festival whose The world is a partner in Blois. The Elysée, for its part, revealed the timetable for the text on Thursday, in L’Opinion.
The executive’s objective is to silence rumors about any desire to calm down the text. Before the end of the year, “in any case, there is no place in the parliamentary agenda”the minister justified herself.
The bill which will draw a “French model of end-of-life support”according to Mme Firmin Le Bodo, is available in ” Three parties “. The first concerns the development of palliative care, renamed “supportive care”. “The priority [du chef de l’Etat] was to move forward on palliative careshe insisted. But we still have a few small adjustment points. We are currently looking at one or two measures to see if they fall within the legislative domain, and therefore if they should be included in the text. »
The second part of the text relates, she says, to “patients’ rights, bereavement support”. The third part opens access to the“assisted dying”. Mme Firmin Le Bodo proposed to the Head of State that adult patients condemned in the medium term, having physical suffering “unbearable” and with free and informed will at the time of their request, can be prescribed a lethal product, subject to a collegial medical decision. For a patient who could not physically kill themselves, she suggests the intervention of a third party.
“The continuum of palliative support”
“The worst would be to propose a law that does not provide an answer to all situationspleaded Mme Firmin Le Bodo. And that a person who would be physically prevented from performing the gesture of assisted dying cannot” have access to it.
On the modalities of assistance in dying, “these points are still to be decided”, however, she added. According to our information, meetings must take place on the subject in the presence of the head of state.
Mme Firmin Le Bodo responded on Friday to criticism from caregivers and several Macronist deputies against a section on palliative care in the bill. Parliamentarians in favor of this care but hostile to assisted dying would, according to these detractors, be caught in a dilemma which would deprive them of speaking out according to their convictions. For her, this “debate does not exist. Access to assistance in dying is the continuum of curative and palliative support until death”she explained.
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