Euthanasia: the view of Barbarin

The Archbishop of Lyon, Philippe Barbarin, said that "we must never legislate in emotionally", in response to a question about the request for euthanasia of a woman of 52 years, reached ' an incurable disease in Dijon, in an interview published today by France. Patients with incurable ailments "need our compassion, our presence and an infinite delicacy filled with silence and respect. But we should not legislate in emotionally," he judged. "Nobody has the right to commit suicide," he added. Sébire Chantal, a former teacher of 52 years, mother of three children, disfigured and rendered blind "esthesioneuroblastome", a tumor evolutionary sinuses and nasal cavity causing suffering "excruciating", filed a motion before the Court of Grande Instance de Dijon to get the right to be euthanasiée. The judgement must be made tomorrow.