Patients utilizing assist to die is not going to be deemed “died of natural death” | EUROtoday

The deputies deleted, Friday, May 23, a provision of the textual content regarding the fitting to assist to die, in accordance with which the sufferers who’ve recourse would then be “Reputed to have died of natural death” on their dying certificates.

Amendments to abolish the paragraph in query have been authorised by a brief majority, with an unfavorable opinion of the rapporteur (Socialist Party, PS) Stéphane Delautrette, and a discover of knowledge of the federal government, that’s to say not orienting the deputies in a single path or the opposite. The article was authorised in stride.

The deputy (Renaissance) of Maine-et-Loire Nicole Dubré-Chirat, on the origin of one of many amendments that led to introduce this provision in committee, defined that she needed “Save the families of deceased any difficulties linked to contractual commitments taken out during his lifetime”.

But deputies from varied teams have castigated a provision “Orwellian” (the elected PS of Meurthe-et-Moselle Dominique Potier), who “Completely handles the meaning of words” (the elected Renaissance of the Bas-Rhin Charles Sitzenstuhl), and “Travestite reality” (The elected consultant Les Républicains, LR, of the Bas-Rhin Patrick Hetzel).

“Take advantage of the parliamentary shuttle” to enhance this level

“You change the meaning of words to impose an ideology, even if it means defeating reality”estimated the deputy (nationwide gathering) of the Pyrénées-Orientales Sandrine Dogor-Such, linking this writing with the refusal of the promoters of the textual content to incorporate within the regulation the phrases “Euthanasia” Or “Assisted suicide”.

Mr. Delautrette argued that sufferers who died following a deep and steady sedation, as approved by the 2016 Claeys-Leonetti regulation, have been deceased from pure dying.

But Mr. Sitzenstuhl recalled the distinction between the 2 procedures, underlined by the High Authority for Health, particularly with regard to “Result criterion”. Deep and steady sedation is “Pursued till dying as a result of pure evolution of the illness. While euthanasia (…) causes the affected person’s quick dying “he quoted.

The Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, for her part recalled that she was specified later in the text that “Help to die was not an impediment to the circumstances which are these of life insurance coverage contracts”. She suggested “Take benefit of the shuttle” Text parliamentary, which must then be examined in the Senate, to improve this point. One possibility would be to add “Two packing containers” To the list of apparent deaths of death, one for deep and continuous sedation and one for helping to die.

Apparent clause

In the evening, the deputies largely validated (by 126 votes to 10) the framework of the “Consciousness clause” Allowing any doctor to refuse to practice help, on the model of existing rules for abortion.

Decision which will remain individual, despite the attempts of the right to authorize a collective clause on the scale of an establishment or service, Patrick Hetzel evoking “Hostile palliative care providers” Help to die and his colleague (LR) of Hauts-de-Seine Philippe Juvin, the case of retirement homes “Used by non secular congregations”.

Of the “Amendments devoid of humanity” denounced by the deputy (PS) of the Rhône Sandrine Runel, with the will to “Make the regulation ineffective” According to the deputy (modem) of Eure-et-Loir Philippe Vigier, and even a risk of “Republican rupture” For the deputy (horizons) of Seine-et-Marne Frédéric Valletoux.

No consciousness clause, however, for pharmacists who will provide the lethal product, requested by opponents of the text but dismissed by the assembly earlier in the day.

The parliamentarians have also approved the detail of the procedure framing the administration of the substance and its consequences. An amendment by M. Delautrette has notably been adopted, specifying that if the presence of the health professional is not compulsory, he must be “Sufficient and in direct imaginative and prescient of the individual”.

In addition to the various criteria and stages prior to this ultimate gesture, the deputies also validated the creation of a “Control and analysis committee”mainly responsible for keeping the register of caregivers practicing assistance to die, and to report to health orders or to justice the facts relating to their skills – failure to ethics on the one hand, crimes and crimes on the other.

Less than 200 amendments remaining under discussion, the examination at first reading of the text should end on Saturday, before a solemn vote on May 27.