Emmanuel Macron has promised a bill on the end of life. The latter should be debated in Parliament “next year”, said this Monday the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester. “I think it will be in the Council of Ministers before the end of the year, and then in Parliament next year,” he declared on Sud Radio.
Emmanuel Macron was to receive the bill “by the end of summer”, a deadline set at the beginning of April by the Head of State himself at the end of the work of the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life. The timetable has not since been specified, even if the government seemed to give itself additional time by recently mentioning “significant progress by the end of September”.
A “falsely dignified perspective”
A way, too, of overcoming the Pope’s visit to Marseille, where Emmanuel Macron was able to discuss the subject with a sovereign pontiff who warned against “the falsely worthy perspective of a gentle death”.
At this stage, the creation of “active assistance in dying” remains dependent on the decisions of the executive, which intends to articulate this new right with a palliative care development plan. Once adopted by the Council of Ministers, this text will be the subject of “work by a special commission” in the Assembly and the Senate, added Franck Riester.