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Alain Cocq, 57, suffering from an incurable disease, in his bed in Dijon, France, August 12, 2020 – AFP / Archives
This Saturday (5) blocked at noon the live broadcast of the last moments of the life of Frenchman Alain Cocq, who suffers from an incurable disease and who decided, through the transmission on the social network, to draw attention to the issue. assisted death.
“While we respect his decision to draw attention to this complex issue, based on the advice of experts we have taken steps to avoid live broadcasting on Alain’s account, as our rules do not allow the representation of suicide attempts,” he said a spokesman. The voice of Facebook to AFP.
In the early hours of this Saturday, this inhabitant of Dijon (east) announced in a video that he had stopped treating himself, eating and hydrating, letting himself die live to denounce the laws in force on dignified death in France.
A few hours later, when he was about to post a new video, Alain Cocq announced: “Facebook blocks my video transmission until September 8.”
“Judge for yourselves,” this 57-year-old wrote, addressing his followers, before giving the address of Facebook France in Paris to “let them know what they think of his methods to prevent freedom of expression. ”.
Facebook has very detailed rules – although it doesn’t have specific end-of-life provisions, they are very strict in terms of content that can appear to promote suicide or self-harm. Cases including euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Alain Cocq suffers from an extremely rare, unnamed disease that causes the walls of the arteries to stick together, causing ischemia, a decrease or suspension of blood supply to the tissue or organ.
Paralyzed by incessant pain for 34 years, condemned to stay in bed, Cocq would like to receive deep sedation, something that French law does not allow, except when you are a few hours away from certain death.
“This is not suicide,” said the patient, who is Catholic. “I am within the case provided by law, in which a patient can interrupt his treatment,” he explained at dawn, specifying that, in these cases, death occurs “between two, five or seven days.”
“It will be very difficult, but it will not be huge compared to everything I have experienced,” added Cocq, lying on the medical bed installed at home.
He had written to President Emmanuel Macron to authorize a doctor to prescribe a barbiturate and “leave in peace.”
“As I am not above the law, I cannot agree to your demand,” Macron said in a letter sent to Cocq and of which AFP obtained a copy.
“I cannot ask anyone to ignore the current legal framework,” the president added.
With Macon’s response, Cocq confirmed his intention to die by not eating, hydrating, and treating except for pain relief.
“I am moved, I respect your initiative,” Macron said in the letter, which includes a handwritten phrase: “With all my personal support and my deep respect.”
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