On Wednesday, French lawmakers approved a bill granting certain terminally ill persons the right to assisted suicide under stringent guidelines. With 291 votes in favor and 241 against, the lower house supported the legislation. The measure still has to be reviewed by the nation’s highest constitutional authority.
With its enactment, France becomes one of eleven nations with assisted dying legislation, each with its own set of regulations. One of the main promises of French President Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term was the law, which he referred to as “the French model for end-of-life care.
The main feature of the bill is medically assisted suicide, which permits qualified individuals to obtain and, under certain restrictions, self-administer fatal medicine. A doctor or nurse would only be able to help individuals who were physically incapable of doing so.
Patients who wish to terminate their lives must be French nationals or lawful residents of France and be at least eighteen years old. Before determining that a patient has a serious, incurable, and life-threatening condition, a doctor would need to confer with a group of medical experts. The patient must be in an advanced or terminal stage, be in excruciating agony that cannot be alleviated, and voluntarily seek the drug.
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