“He wasn’t sick, he was just exhausted,” an unnamed person close to the family told the newspaper. “So he made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him to make it known,” he added.
By assisted euthanasia the French-Swiss director passed away Jean-Luc Godard, the “father” of Nouvelle Vague, his family’s lawyer confirmed to AFP.
“Godard resorted to legal assisted euthanasia in Switzerland due to ‘multiple disabling medical conditions’, according to the terms of the medical opinion“, explained Patrick Zaneret, confirming a report published by the newspaper Liberation.
“He wasn’t sick, he was just exhausted“, an unnamed person close to the family told the newspaper. “So he made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him to make it known“, he added.
In Switzerland there are different forms of euthanasia, such as passive and assisted. The best known is the assisted one, which is allowed under certain conditions. In theory, someone who “motivated by selfish motives” provides assistance to another to end his life – for example, by giving him a lethal substance – is punishable by five years in prison. However, organizations such as Exit provide assistance within the framework of the law, without being imputed to them “selfish motive».
Assisted suicides have increased in recent years in Switzerland, from 187 in 2003 to 965 in 2015, according to the country’s statistical office. They decreased slightly in 2016, but then increased again.
In 2014, on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival, Godard was asked by a journalist from the public broadcaster Swiss Radio (RTS) if he would ever consider resorting to assisted suicide in Switzerland. The answer was yes: “Yes, but for now” this death by choice “is still very difficult,” he said at the time.
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