A French citizens' council of 150 members of the public will meet Friday to begin discussions on end-of-life care, including whether assisted suicide should be legalised. As French laws have evolved over the last two decades, calls have increased to allow medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients.
In August 2022, Pascal travelled with his partner Guy from their home in western France to Belgium, where Guy ended his life by euthanasia. “He held on until the end of August to avoid disrupting our children's summer holidays,” Pascal says. “Otherwise, I think he would have picked an earlier date.”
