“She committed suicide and I was present”: Sandrine Rousseau recounts how she accompanied her mother in her slow death

En 2013, sa mère, atteinte d'un cancer, avait choisi de mettre fin à ses jours. MAXPPP – Thomas Padilla

En 2013, la député Sandrine Rousseau avait déjà déclaré que sa mère, victime d’un cancer, avait choisi de mettre fin à ses jours en prenant des médicaments

Green MP Sandrine Rousseau delivered a poignant testimony to the National Assembly this Wednesday, April 24, explaining that she witnessed the suicide of her mother, who was seriously ill and in " suffering", respecting his choice to end his life.

"I helped my mother die, she committed suicide and I was there. Who would I be to forbid him this gesture ?", asked the member for Paris, before the special commission responsible for examining the government's bill on the end of life, which interviewed the leaders of the main religions. The latter expressed their "concerns" on the text.

A slow agony of nine hours

If she said "respect" the positions of representatives of the cult, Sandrine Rousseau called for consideration "the suffering" of people whose death is very close .& nbsp;"There are none of the people who will be affected by this law who are not going to die in the near future. The question is not so much the relationship to death, as the relationship to suffering in this death", she insisted.

Sandrine Rousseau had already declared in 2013 that her mother, suffering from terminal cancer, had chosen to end her life by taking medication, at the age 68 years old. She explained that she had helplessly watched her mother's slow agony, which lasted a total of nine hours.

"I didn'kill my father, I'helped him"

"Of course there is talk of death, but what is absent from your words is the suffering of these people. As men of the Church, as men of faith, suffering has an importance", she concluded.

MP LR Philippe Juvin, an anesthetist-resuscitator by profession, had confided shortly before having "practiced deep sedation" at his father. "I didn't kill my father, I helped him. The difference is fundamental", he explained to the special commission.