Nicole Croisille had chosen euthanasia in Belgium – Liberation
Nicole Croisille died at 88, Carried away by cancer on the night of June 3 to 4. A week later, on June 10, the magazine She Published a final interview with the singer and actress, carried out a few weeks before her death. Claude Lelouch’s collaborator reveals to have Choose the« euthanasia » in Belgium.
The discovery of a liver tumor, a consolidation chemotherapy that has « Destroyed », Many more and more aggressive treatments of treatments and months of combat without hope of healing, make Nicole Croisille say: « That’s enough. » « Why continue to suffer? »she wonders.
The artist had agreed to deliver the reasons for his choice to On the sole condition of not publishing this interview before her death, « So as not to attract boredom to the Belgian team that took care of it ». “I don’t want to become dependent, even less to be a weight. If I have a message to convey, a word that is close to my heart, it is this: compassion. Dignity has no age. She does not disappear because we are poor, different or we are old ”she explains in her interview.
She claims to think « For years » at assisted suicide. “It was found in Belgium, it was possible. In France, It was only possible if a doctor agreed to help me secretly. ” Nicole Croisille met, on the advice of the Association for the right to die in dignity (ADMD), the Namur CHR team. People she describes « Extraordinary ».
It was not ultimately at the Namur CHR that she died out, but « In a Parisian clinic where she was hospitalized urgently on June 1, her state having won considerably »says the magazine. « Ultimate chance of the calendar? » On his agenda, as of June 4, he was written « The Grand Départ ». «
