Proposal would allow terminal patients in France to request help to die [Video]

Paris — After months of deliberation and contemplation, President Emmanuel Macron announced at the weekend that he is backing a bill to introduce new “end-of-life” legislation in France for terminally ill patients.

“The term we retained is that of ‘helping to die’ because it is simple and human,” Macron said in an exclusive interview with two French newspapers.

“There are cases we cannot humanly accept,” he said, adding that this legislation would “look death in the face.”

Macron revealed that the bill would allow a terminally ill person to self-administer a lethal substance or, in the case where a patient was not physically capable of that, he or she could request that another person be designated to do so, if they were willing.

He told left-leaning Libération and Catholic daily La Croix that the proposed legislation would apply to adults only, and that they would have to be able to fully understand what they were about to do – which would rule …