Alliance VITA provides support for people facing life’s challenges
In our society, scientific advances and the changing of mentalities have weakened the fundamental rights of the unheard and under-protected: children, the elderly, disabled persons, and all the most vulnerable. We take action to protect them.
We are keenly aware of life’s trials, which is why we provide support services with SOS Bébé and SOS Fin de vie and Thadeo.
We’ve helped to support 30,000 people over the course of 20 years, making our bioethics expertise both unique and renowned.
Our missions
Listen & help
“SOS Bébé”, “SOS Fin de vie” and “Thadeo”, provide aid for people confronted by life’s trials.
Inform & train
The “University of Life” has trained more than 58,000 people in bioethical issues.
Discuss & raise awareness
With actions to reach and sensitize decision makers and the general public, locally and nationally.
Our News
No Consensus in Sight for Legalizing Euthanasia in France
Earlier this month President Emmanuel Macron declared to the actress, Line Renaud, in regard to euthanasia: “This is the time for it, so it will be done.”
The Werther effect or “Copycat” Suicides
In 1774, Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” which ends with a young man’s suicide was published. Quite a number of young readers imitated Werther, the book’s hero, to the point that the rise in suicide rates was a direct cause for having this book banned in many countries.
French Ethics Committee’s Deadly Volte-Face on Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide
On September 13, 2022, the “CCNE” (French National Consultative Ethics Committee) published recommendation N° 139. Essentially it recommends for palliative care to be reinforced and for “some unavoidable ethical prerequisites” in the event that euthanasia and assisted suicide are legalized.