End of life: the Senate rejects the culture of death

The collapse of a soulless text

Article 2 was not a mere technicality; he constituted the “key the secondary schoolCome on » of the device, defining the contours of the lethal gesture. Its rejection caused a parliamentary earthquake. Deprived of its backbone, the Social Affairs Committee drew the logical consequences of this void: it scuttled the rest of the text with a series of deletion amendments. As Philippe Mouiller (LR) pointed out, continuing the debate on a text that had become inapplicable would have made no sense.

Certainly, this rejection is the result of a combination of circumstances. On one side, a very diverse right attachto the protection of life; on the other, a socialist left frustrated by a text that it considered too “ timor» in relation to the libertarian inclinations of the National Assembly. But what does the hitch matter, as long as the abyss disappears: the principle of assisted suicide is, for the moment, stopped at the Luxembourg Palace.

The Hippocratic Oath in the face of “poids mort »

Le débat a été marqué by the vigorous intervention of Bruno Retailleau. Faced with Patrick Kanner (PS) ironically about the fact that “the mass is said »the president of the Republicans recalled a truth which goes beyond confessional divisions:

“What you are proposing is the reversal of the Hippocratic Oath which dates back twenty-four ifèkeys, long before Christianity. »

L’he sold me to lumière the civilizational danger of this reform: that of a society où the patient, on the threshold of eternity, ends up wondering if he is not a “burden » for his own. Transforming the doctor, minister of life, into an agent of death, is a subversion that the Sénat refusedto endorse. 

Palliative care: the only charitable emergency

In the midst of this tumult, and quasi-unanimityé, the senators definitively adopted a text strengthening accessès to palliative care. This is whereside la véritable réput on to suffering: not to eliminate the sufferer, but to relieve their pain and surround their end of life with a human and caring presence. “Death can wait »a martelto Senator Christine Bonfanti-Dossat, recalling that the emergency is budgetary and human, and not ideological.

Vigilance remains essential

The fight is not over, however. If the Senate has saved its honor, the government has already expressed its desire to regain control. The text could return fromès next June in front of a National Assembly much more committed to thèses of the « death administered ».

En coulisses, l’idée d’un référendum d’initiative partagée (RIP), portCreated by Francis Szpiner and Bruno Retailleau, is making its way, officially to give the French a voice, while knowing that the various opinion surveys show that the French would be in favor of the principle of death in white gloves…: nothing surprising in a largely secularized country where natural law has been passed long forgotten in history.