The race for "a dignified death" of a disfigured his fifties accelerates

DIJON, March 6, 2008 - Chantal Sébire, disfigured by an orphan disease, an incurable and progressive, announced Thursday have entrusted his case to the Association for the Right to Die in Dignity (ADMD), ten days after his appeal to the Rescue "that accompanies dignity in death." "I am meeting Friday Jean-Luc Romero responsible for ADMD, I sent him my file and he immediately responded," said Ms. Sébire AFP, reached by telephone. This former school teacher 52 years, based at Plombieres-les-Dijon (Côte d'Or) and the mother of three children, was told in 2002 that she was suffering from a "Esthesioneuroblastome", a progressive sinus tumor and the nasal cavity. A very rare disease - only 200 cases have been reported in the world since 20 years - incurable and whose evolution causes a dramatic and irreversible deformation of the face and suffering "excruciating", says Sébire. "Today I arrived at the end of their tether," added the fifties who fights "with all its strength for years" against the tumor and which expresses "readiness" now starting to Switzerland to "die with dignity" . Ms. Sébire stated they had sent "these days", a letter to the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, "a letter accompanied by a videotape of FR3 Burgundy, giving rise to its first witness, so that it complements the law of the sick. "It can advance quickly, but for me it will be too late", concluded Ms. Sébire. Leonetti Act of 22 April 2005 on the rights of patients goes in the direction of compliance with the terminally ill, but it does not allow euthanasia in France, unlike some other European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium or Switzerland.