France's National Assembly is set to vote on a bill permitting adults with incurable illnesses to access lethal medication, reflecting increasing public demand across Europe for legal end-of-life options. The bill outlines strict eligibility criteria for patients, including age, citizenship, and medical condition. Patients must demonstrate intolerable pain and voluntariness in their request for a doctor's assistance in obtaining lethal medication. Concurrently, another proposed bill aims to enhance palliative care to address patient dignity and pain management. Growing public support for legal end-of-life options has been noted in recent years.
The proposed measure defines assisted dying as allowing people to use a lethal substance under certain conditions so that they may take it themselves.
To benefit from the newly proposed measure, patients would need to be over 18 and be French citizens or live in France.
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