No to euthanasia. Thirteen learned societies and associations of doctors and nurses want to persuade the ” government ” and the “parliamentarians” of “to leave the world of care away from any involvement in a form of administered death”. Representing, according to them, 800,000 caregivers, these organizations anticipate a change in the law. Unable to block it, they wrote a “ethical advice” of 26 pages dated February 16, revealed by Le Figaro and The world procured, who refuses “categorically the euthanasia approach”, that’s to say ” the preparation ” et “the administration of a lethal substance” by caregivers. While refraining from suggesting the legalization of “assisted suicide”they indicate that their “opposing is different” since there is no involvement of the caregiver in the lethal gesture in this process.
At the origin of the text, the French Society for Support and Palliative Care had no trouble enlisting in this fight associations of geriatricians, general practitioners and practitioners who intervene in nursing homes. “Materially administered death” “would weaken the ethics and practice of caregivers” and would cause a “death injunction” on vulnerable people or people with a loss of autonomy, develops ” the opinion “ sent to the Elysée with a request for a hearing.
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