Eugénie Bastié: “Pantheonize Badinter, legalize euthanasia, the paradoxes of a disoriented society”
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CHRONICLE. - In Fins de la vie (Éditions du Cerf), a remarkable collective work, edited by Professor Emmanuel Hirsch, thinkers and experts take stock of the triple medical, legal, and anthropological rupture that the creation of a "right to die" assured by the State would constitute.
This year, Robert Badinter will enter the Pantheon . This "moral conscience" , as Emmanuel Macron called it, will join the great men, notably for his fight against the death penalty, the abolition of which he enabled in our country. The year of Robert Badinter's pantheonization will perhaps be that of the legalization of euthanasia , currently under debate in the National Assembly. Some will find this comparison indecent, but on the contrary, it is perfectly relevant to highlight the paradox of a society that celebrates in the same breath the legal prohibition of killing in the name of justice but is preparing to reopen it in the name of emancipation.
Those who will not fail to accuse us of exploiting the memory of the Minister of Justice, by evoking his late adherence to what he had refused until now, would do well to read Fins de la vie (Fins of Life ) published by Éditions du Cerf. The authors recall the statement of Robert Badinter, consulted on the end of life in the mid-2005s:
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