wanted by Emmanuel Macron, the agreement has been bringing about around 180 citizens since December, of which 167 expressed themselves by a secret ballot on Sunday. At 84 %, they judged that the current law was not adapted to the “different situations encountered”.
by Béatrice Jérôme
The CAP is fixed. But the paths to reach it remain to be traced. The citizen convention on the end of life spoke, Sunday, February 19, in favor of an “opening” to “active help to die”. In other words, for possible medical assistance to shorten the existence of patients who would ask for it. On the terms and the profile of people who would have access to this right, the dissensus remain.
The weekend of February 17 to 19 marked “a turning point”, insists Claire Thoury, president of the governance committee of the Citizen Convention. Desired by Emmanuel Macron, she has brought together some 180 citizens drawn from lots since December 9. For March 19, they must answer the question posed by Elisabeth Borne: “Is the support framework of the end of life adapted to the different situations encountered or any changes should they be introduced?”
167 conventional participated Sunday in the votes in the hemicycle of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC). At Bulletin Secret, they answered eleven questions. The overwhelming majority (84 %) immediately estimated that “the frame of support for the end of life does not respond to all the situations encountered”. In the process, 75 % voted for the opening of “active help to die”, or 125 voters. 32 voted against, 10 abstained.
“Conditions”
a large majority, the voters said that “access to active help to die” should be subject to “conditions”, whether it is assisted suicide (72 %), or euthanasia (75 %). Without these “conditions” being explained at this stage.
It is then that the votes showed flaws and doubts. 72 % of voters (121 citizens) spoke about opening up to assisted suicide. But only 66 % said they wanted to authorize euthanasia. Even if the gap is not very important, it reflects a fear that euthanasia could be carried out at the request of a patient whose wish to die would be ambivalent. Assisted suicide, forcing a person to fulfill the lethal gesture themselves, would leave, according to their supporters, no place in doubt about the will of the person to end their life.
With regard to the limits, 45 % of those questioned believe that assisted suicide should be open to incurable patients but without “necessarily committed vital prognosis”. They are 40 % to be of this opinion concerning euthanasia. Barely a quarter of the participants want “active help to die” is only possible for people at the end of their lives. However, a very large third of the voters abstained on this issue.
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