2024-02-08 16:04:50
A couple during a medical appointment regarding a request for euthanasia, June 1, 2018, Pont-a-Mousson, eastern France. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP
Reshuffle or not, Emmanuel Macron receives representatives of religions at his table on Thursday February 8 to address the subject of the end of life. He committed to bringing them together when he presented his wishes a month ago. This is the second dinner with religious leaders since he launched the debate on the subject, in September 2022. The last was held on March 9, 2023.
Emmanuel Macron is organizing this meeting on the eve of several announcements of which he might reserve the first for his evening visitors. Sera presents Catherine Vautrin, the Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity, who will bring the file within the government. The minister “will not come empty-handed”, indicates those around him. For the executive, it is a question of showing that “the file is moving forward”.
Were invited this Thursday Monsignor Matthieu Rougé, Bishop of Nanterre, the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, Pastor Christian Krieger, president of the Protestant Federation of France, Antony Boussemart, co-president of the Buddhist Union of France. The Metropolitan of France, President of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France, Dimitrios Ploumis, will also be present. Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, is traveling abroad all week.
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Personalities from the medical and political world are also invited to this dinner: Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the national ethics consultative committee (CCNE). Alain Claeys, co-author of the 2016 law on the end of life, will also be present. A former deputy, he is co-rapporteur of the CCNE opinion on the subject delivered in September 2022. The Head of State invited two active doctors: Doctor François Blot, resuscitation doctor at the Gustave Roussy Institute, to Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), specialist in medical ethics. And a doctor, responsible for a palliative care service at the public hospital.
Details expected on the calendar
Emmanuel Macron’s ambition is first of all to reassure religious representatives, attentive to supporting the dying, but also the medical community. The Head of State should provide proof of his desire to develop access to palliative care, “first pillar” of the strategy he presented in April 2023 to improve end-of-life support.
And “ten-year plan for the development of supportive care” – new wording stamped by the executive to designate palliative care – is ready. It is inspired by the work of Professor Franck Chauvin submitted in the fall. This plan is accompanied by a significant financial envelope and a reform of medical studies to train more doctors in this field and develop research.
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