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End of life: “My father benefited from illegal euthanasia in France”

There’s something about Jonathan Denis that breaks codes. Red tie, multi-colored socks, this young forty-year-old stands out in the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (ADMD). The man, who leads a group of mostly women, has been campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia since 1980. Moreover, Young, although ADMD’s “average age is over 65 years old,” he says in his office, where on the wall hang two portraits of personalities, Guy Bedos and Lyn Renaud, former and current ADMD activists.

Do you have to be old to talk about death? In the book he publishes this Thursday, Dying with Dignity (Ed. Le Cherche-Midi, 144 pp., 18 euros)Jonathan Denis brilliantly proves the opposite. At the center of the news – Emmanuel Macron committed himself to a law on active aid in dying earlier this month – the work reveals to us why, at the age of 30, he joined this association of 77,000 members. , who are fighting for the French to be able to choose the conditions of their end of life.

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Source: Le Parisien

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