Rehon. Jacques Chose to Get Euthanized in Belgium: "I Want to End Life, It's Too Much Suffering"

At the time when the Assembly has just passed a bill creating a "right to help die", here is the story of 90-year-old Jacques, who lives day and night in a medical room, at his home in Rehon, near Longwy. He has asked his daughter to accompany him to Belgium to "death decently". A thoughtful choice that has been accepted by Belgian doctors. From now on, the non-agenary awaits this last appointment with life.

The evolution of the French law on aid to die is very expected in Belgium, where requests from French patients wishing to benefit from euthanasia continue to increase, to the point of weighing on the system of care, according to an expert. "Quickly let the law succeed!" says Jacqueline Herremans, member of the Belgian supervisory authority ...