RIGHT-TO-DIE IN FRANCE

    In 2016 France created a new right-to-die law,
which put into explicit language
the end-of-life practices already used by of the medical profession.

    French doctors are now officially authorized to use any combination
of the following medical methods of managing dying:

1. Increasing pain-medication
with the recognition that the larger doses of drugs might
(as a side effect) shorten the process of dying.
But doctors may not give drugs
with the explicit purpose of hastening death.

2. Beginning terminal sedation,
which will keep the patient completely unconscious
for what remains of the dying process.

3. Ending all medical treatments and life-supports.
In some cases, this will result in immediate death.
In other cases, the duration of dying will be somewhat longer,
which can be explained by the specific causes of death.

4. Giving up all food and water, however provided.
This medical method of managing dying
has a predictable duration of one or two weeks,
depending on the condition of the patient's body.




Law "Leonetti Claeys' No. 2016-87 of 2 February 2016
published in OJ No. 0028 of 3 February 2016
creating new rights for sick people at end of life



    Notably absent is any use of gentle poison to bring death.

    In other words, the first four of the following
medical methods of managing dying are officially authorized,
but not the fifth method:
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    A Paris lawyer explains the main provisions of France's new right-to-die law:
http://www.worldrtd.net/sites/default/files/newsfiles/Leonetti%20Claeys%20explained.pdf



Go to other right-to-die laws and proposals:
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Created June 16, 2016; Revised 9-7-2016; 10-16-2018;


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