Article: France to consider legislation to allow terminally ill patients the right to die.

2004 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- France's health minister has reopened the heated debate on euthanasia, saying August 27, 2004, that the terminally ill should have the right to die "in dignity."

Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy ruled out legalization of euthanasia but said French laws governing "end-of-life" care needed to be modified for patients facing imminent death.

The National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, will examine legislation before the end of the year that redefines the options for terminally ill patients, the minister said.

"With this law, the terminally ill will be able to choose to die," ...

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