PARIS-France’s lower parliament council has adopted a draft law on Tuesday to allow adults with non-recovered diseases to perform fatal drugs, as public demands grow throughout Europe to obtain the end of the legal end options.
The national assembly vote is an essential step in the issue that has long been excluded, although others remain before the draft law becomes a law.
“I think about all the patients and their loved ones who I met more than a decade. Many are no longer here, and they have always told me: they continue to fight,” said Olivier Valnene, the general decision of the draft law, amid applause from his colleagues.
The proposed scale defines fatal drugs to help as allow use under certain conditions so that people can take them themselves. Only those who do not allow their physical condition to do this alone will be able to get help from a doctor or nurse.
The draft law, which has received 305 votes in favor and 199 against the Senate, will be sent, where a conservative majority can seek to amend it. The final vote on this measure may take months to be scheduled amid the long and complex France process. The National Assembly has the final statement of the Senate.
Activists criticized the complexity and length of the parliamentary process, which they say punished patients who are waiting for the end of life options.
In parallel, another draft law was adopted on tilted care that aims to enhance measures to relieve pain and maintain patient dignity on Tuesday, unanimously.
To benefit, patients must be more than 18 years old and be French citizens or live in France.
A team of medical professionals will need to confirm that the patient suffers from a serious and healing disease “in an advanced or terminal” stage, suffering from unbearable and unbearable pain and seeks to obtain a fatal drug from their free will.
Patients with severe psychological conditions and neurological degeneration disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, will not be eligible.
The person will start ordering deadly medicines and confirming the request after a period of thinking. If approved, the doctor will provide a prescription for the deadly drug, which can be taken at home or in the elderly care or health care facility.
The 2023 report indicated that most French citizens are restoring the options of the end of life, and opinion polls show increasing support over the past twenty years.
Initial discussions in Parliament last year were suddenly interrupted through President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to resolve the National Assembly, and France fell into a political crisis for months.
Jonathan Dennis, president of the Association for the Right to Death in Dignity, said: “What a long way, contrary to what the audience thought, contrary to what the French people believed,” said Jonathan Dennis, President of the Association of Right to Death in Dignity.
Earlier this month, Macron suggested that he could ask French voters to approve the procedure through the referendum if Parliament’s discussions are out of the right track.
On Tuesday, Macron described the vote as an important step, adding on social media that “with regard to different feelings, doubts and hopes, the path of brotherhood that I was hoping to be gradually was gradually. With dignity and humanity.”
Many French traveled to neighboring countries, where suicide is with medical help or merciful murder is legal.
Suicide with a medical assistance that includes patients who take, from their free will, a fatal drink or medicine determined by a doctor for those who meet certain criteria. Compassionate killing includes doctors or other health practitioners who give patients who meet certain criteria of fatal injection at their request.
Dennis said: “I cannot accept that French men and women should go to Switzerland – if they can bear its costs – or to Belgium to be supported in their choice, or that French men and women accompany a secret in other countries,” Dennis said.
French religious leaders issued a joint statement this month to condemn the draft law, warning of the dangers of “anthropological rupture”. The religious leaders in France, which represents the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Judaism, Muslim and Buddhist societies, said that the proposed measures risk pressure on the elderly, diseases or disabilities.
Suicide is allowed with the help of Switzerland and several US states. Merciful murder is currently legal in the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Australia, Colombia, Belgium and Luxembourg under certain circumstances.
In the United Kingdom, legislators are discussing a bill to help adults with medical diseases end their lives in England and Wales after granting it initial approval in November.
