00:00Dying on your own terms.
00:02In most European countries, that's still impossible.
00:05After years of debate, France has now become one of a handful of states where some terminally
00:09ill patients will have the right to euthanasia administered by a doctor.
00:13É um passo na boa direção, de dar a maior liberdade ao malado, de choisir a maneira
00:19de morir e de poder se posicionar em um contexto de uma doença grave e de devenir incurable.
00:26Until now, this professor in neighboring Belgium helped French people who wanted to die on
00:30their own terms.
00:31Now, some will be able to do it on home soil.
00:34But not everyone sees this as progress.
00:36For Lily Guiguenot, the debate is not only about personal freedom, but about the way society
00:41treats people who are ill, old or disabled.
00:44C'est cette idée de déchéance, et cette idée que le suicide est forcément une solution.
00:48Par exemple, les personnes handicapées, elles se voient, enfin moi ça m'est déjà
00:51arrivé d'être invité au suicide dans la rue, par une personne en fait, parce que ça
00:57c'est quelque chose qu'on vit, et c'est pas anodin, ça traduit un système de domination
01:01qui est profondément ancrée.
01:02The new law in France is mainly built around assisted suicide.
01:05In most cases, the patient would take the lethal substance themselves.
01:09Doctors can only administer it if the patient is physically unable to do so.
01:13Excess is also tightly restricted.
01:15Applicants must be adults living legally in France, with a serious and incurable illness
01:20at an advanced or terminal stage, and experiencing suffering that treatment can no longer relieve,
01:25or that they consider unbearable.
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