Interviewed by L’Obs, this Thursday, May 13, Françoise Hardy spoke about the right to euthanasia, which she considers essential for people living with such suffering that only death is an issue.
If there is a public figure who uses his notoriety to highlight the importance of legalizing euthanasia, it’s good Francoise Hardy. From a young age, the singer has positioned herself in favor of the right to die with dignity, just like the actor Nicolas Bedos. In L’Obs published this Thursday, May 13, Thomas Dutronc’s mother spoke again on the subject. The opportunity for her to share her condition, after having undergone forty-five radiotherapy sessions. Now she has to face “Respiratory distress, coughing fits, obstructions and nasal hemorrhages”.
For her, it is incomprehensible and unacceptable “let incurably sick suffer martyrdom until their last minute, and that the doctors do not have the minimum of humanity required to shorten their suffering”. Saying that she is ready to resort to euthanasia if her health ever deteriorates so that it becomes “insupportable”, Françoise Hardy does not, however, consider going abroad to end her life. “I am no longer able to travel and even less to carry out the very complex preliminary steps required for euthanasia”, explained to our colleagues who therefore does not have the ambition to eventually turn to Switzerland or Belgium, which have legalized the practice. The 77-year-old singer, however, has a real anxiety, namely that “to have to be hospitalized”.
A right offered to domestic animals
While France does not yet seem ready to make legal the right to die with dignity, Françoise Hardy felt that this could be a real societal advance: “The terrible suffering which worsens and which has no other outcome than certain death is an enormous burden for this person, for all those close to him and, although in a different way, for society.” “It is obvious to me, as for a majority of people, that the right to die with dignity must be legalized by authorizing doctors to shorten unbearable suffering and with no way out other than death”, added the singer, who recalls that even pets benefit from this privilege, when “there is no hope that they will ever get better.”
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
Photo credits: JLPPA / Bestimage
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