The French National Assembly has given the green light to the end-of-life law. The bill was definitively approved with a narrow majority (291 votes in favor, 241 against). The measure, which will allow adults suffering from incurable diseases to receive lethal drugs, must be examined by the Constitutional Council.
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The measure will apply only to patients at least 18 years old, French citizens or legal residents in France, suffering from a serious and incurable disease in an advanced or terminal stage.
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France thus joins the European countries that authorize, under certain conditions, assisted suicide or euthanasia, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and Uruguay.
The law was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron more than three years ago.
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