What is the status of discussions on the end of life ? Legislative debate delayed ? The promise by the previous government to register resumption of the debates at the French Assemblée Nationale in early February has come into conflict with the budgetary realities....
End of life: A referendum is unlikely The idea of a referendum is again rearing its head in 2025. The process is similar to certain deterrent weapons whose effects are difficult to control: they are talked about more than being used. During his recent New Year address...
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The French government has fallen, but the urgencies remain With the censure vote against the Michel Barnier government, the examination of the text of the bill on the end of life, scheduled for early February, is undoubtedly suspended but not so for the urgencies...
On 30th January 2023, The Portuguese Constitutional Court again rejected a law to legalise euthanasia.
Several studies conducted in hospitals on requests for euthanasia have provided an insight into the reasons and motivations of patients.
Several studies have been released over the last twelve years to estimate the number of euthanasia requests in France. These studies are sometimes quoted in the current debate on the end of life and its legal framework.
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Whilst the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life is to begin tomorrow, Alliance VITA stands ready to provide its expertise and convictions, with determination and guilelessly.
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Alliance VITA denounces the inappropriate endorsement of euthanasia by French complementary health insurance companies and calls upon their duty of discretion in view of the potential conflict of interest.
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The newly appointed French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, has announced that before the year’s end, citizens’ debates will be held on the end-of-life. Alliance VITA is mobilized and will continue to defend a society based on interdependence and intergenerational solidarity.
In France, an IFOP survey on the end-of-life was recently published by the national complementary insurance company for teachers, the “MGEN ” Mutuelle Générale de l’Éducation Nationale. Its’ militant commitment to euthanasia is openly stated in an end-of-life manifesto
On November 29, 2021 the President of Portugal vetoed the law decriminalizing euthanasia. In January 2021 this highly controversial legislation was hurriedly pushed through Parliament while the country was facing another wave of the pandemic and had gone under lock...
On April 8th while French MPs were examining a new bill for euthanasia, the spokespersons of the collective “Relieve Suffering without Killing” held a press conference deploring the indecency of decriminalizing such an act. They argue that if putting a person to death...
