What's your position on euthanasia?
Anne Bert (59) is a French writer who decided to go to Belgium so she could have the right to die. She suffers from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease a neurodegenerative pathology that leads to muscle weakness and paralysis.
From le monde:
[quote] In France, there is a right to "deep and continuous sedation until death" for patients at the end of life, under the Leonetti law voted in 2005. It is "sleep before dying so as not to suffer ". For euthanasia advocates, the Leonetti law has not closed the debate on the choice of end-of-life, and it is this choice that Anne Bert decided to make across the border Belgian, and explains in the French media where she is invited.[/quote]
From le monde:
[quote] In France, there is a right to "deep and continuous sedation until death" for patients at the end of life, under the Leonetti law voted in 2005. It is "sleep before dying so as not to suffer ". For euthanasia advocates, the Leonetti law has not closed the debate on the choice of end-of-life, and it is this choice that Anne Bert decided to make across the border Belgian, and explains in the French media where she is invited.[/quote]
