Alain Delon, a legend of French cinema, has been openly advocating the right to euthanasia for several years. In one interview, he called euthanasia “the most logical and natural thing that can be done.” The actor’s eldest son, Anthony, confessed in a broadcast on RTL radio that his father directly asked him for help in organizing the appropriate procedure and made a relevant entry in his will.
Alain Delon on euthanasia
Alain Delon, a star who has starred in over a hundred films, incl. Luchino Viscontiego, Michelangelo Antonioniego if Jean-Luca Godardadoes not hide his unequivocal attitude to euthanasia.
“I’m for,” he said last year in an interview with French TV5 Monde. “Firstly, because I live in Switzerland, where euthanasia is possible, and secondly, I consider it to be the most logical and natural thingwhat can be done “- added the actor.
The 86-year-old actor in an interview with Swiss television said: “At a certain age, at some point, a person has the right to walk away peacefully, without going through hospitals, injections, etc.”.
Anthony Delon pledged to help his father
Anthony Delon, the son of the star, said on RTL radio that he promised his fatherthat he will accompany him in the last moments of his life, when the actor makes the decision to leave this world.
Alain Delon was supposed to ask him for it after his son looked after his dying mother, Alain’s ex-wife Nathalie Delon, who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2021. “I accompanied my mother“- said Anthony on RTL, adding that the actress was also committed to euthanasia, even though it is illegal in France.
“Fortunately, we didn’t resort to this procedure. I’m saying luckily, because everything was ready. We had such a person,” revealed Anthony Delon.
In an interview concerning the autobiography published by the young Delon, the man confirmed that, if necessary, he would help his father leave as well.
Alain Delon in 2019 passed stroke and still uses a cane. Two years earlier, when his partner Mirelle Darc, with whom he had spent the last 13 years, had died, he said: “I’d rather be as old as I am than 40. That way I won’t have to live without her suffering for too long. He suffers. He is resting. Without her, I can also go away.
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