2024-10-04 03:00:08
G. had chosen to die on Wednesday 14 August in the mid-afternoon. As agreed, the 91-year-old elderly lady welcomed Maryse L. and Guy L., the 81-year-old couple who would accompany her, into her home. They met within the Ultime Liberté association which defends it “the legalization of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia”. Long-time activists, the couple runs the association’s branch in Isère. They had seen each other several times. G. had insisted that his only son attend one of their meetings to inform him of the “procedure”. Her mother’s decision was made, everything was ready. The son had only asked the couple to be informed later.
This Wednesday, August 14, G. sat on her bed. Maryse and Guy had brought what they needed: an antiemetic, sleeping pills, and lethal sodium nitrite. They talked for a while, Maryse massaged the old lady’s feet. Just before falling asleep he told them that he was very happy that his son was starting to play the clarinet again. G. had a first small sack, followed by a second. On the third, he refused everything and regained consciousness. Guy immediately dialed his son’s number. “It didn’t work”he told her. Entering his mother’s house a few minutes later, the son rushed towards Guy, slapped him and called the police station. “They wanted to kill my mother!” Stop them! »he shouted as the police arrived.
In police custody, the two octogenarians explained everything. Maryse pulled the small, empty glass jar labeled “sodium nitrite” from her purse. DEATH”, the bag of sleeping pills, two cups and a handkerchief. The detective, who was leafing through his penal code, looked embarrassed. “What worries you, Commissioner? », Maryse asked. “I don’t know where to put you”, he replied.
Since August 16, the Ultime Liberté activist couple has been charged with “illegal practice of the profession of pharmacist”, “provocation to suicide by supplying means” and “propaganda and advertising in favor of products, objects or methods recommended as means of killing ”. themselves. They face a maximum of three years in prison. Justice instructs. But in this matter of chosen death everything gets tangled up. Public debate and the intimacy of a choice. The will of an elderly lady, the militant commitment of a couple and the pain of a son. Three votes against the penal code.
“Life no longer has any flavor”
G. was heard the day after the assisted suicide attempt. He was at home, he had refused hospitalization. “I wanted to leave. I’ve had a very good life. I don’t want to end up like all these poor people in nursing homes.”, he declared. He immediately worried about Maryse and Guy: “I don’t want them to get in trouble. They did everything at my request. They gave me the products and I took them myself. »
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