France, Macron denies assisted suicide: Alain Cocq wants to die in live broadcast, but Facebook blocks him

He had decided to broadcast his death during an endless broadcast of 4 or 5 days on his page. Facebook, after asking in vain he asked the French President Emmanuel Macron pharmacological assistance to be able to die, in derogation of the end of life law in force in the country. But the social network has decided to block Until 8 September the dissemination of the videos of Alain Cocq, 57 years old suffers a rare genetic disease. “Now it is your turn – said Cocq, urging his followers to support his battle -. Make sure people know what you think Facebook and their unfair methods discrimination and an obstacle to freedom of expression, a right that, however, is inalienable for any French and European citizen ”.

Macron rejected the request for Cocq since man’s medical conditions are not in the criteria for the end of life and are motivated by the impossibility of acting against the law. Hence the decision of let yourself die and spread the event on social media, to “show the French what the agony required by law is Leonetti“, In which France regulates the end of life. “Call your French and European deputies, your senators, the government, the Presidency of the Republic – adds Cocq – to protest against the rape of this fundamental right on the part of Facebook, so that it ceases immediately ”.

Alain Cocq, his illness and his appeals – He is 57 years old and often repeats that he has been “terminally ill for 34.” Suffers from a pathology extremely weird for which there is no cure. The walls of your arteries shrink up stay together, provoking ischemia by arrest or insufficient blood circulation in tissues and organs. The words with which he describes his condition are very harsh: “My intestine empties into a bag. There bladder He empties me into a bag Fill me up like a goose, with a tube in stomach. If I have to stay here and watch the ceiling like an idiot waiting for it to happen, I say no. “And he decided that his death, which started from September 4 until sunset, will become the way to “show the French what is the mandatory agony of the Leonetti law”, the legislation on the end of life.

Before writing to Macron, Cocq He did everything he could to shout his despair to the world, even taking part in several wheelchair tours of Europe. Macron he replied that not even a president “can be above the laws.” The law passed in 2016 authorizes the sedation deep – this would be Cocq’s request – but only for people with forecast “short term”. He, on the other hand, cannot attest to being part of this category of patients, since his illness has lasted for years.
At the entrance of the modest apartment in a very popular neighborhood of Dijon, in the center of France, Alain had his “attestation of refusal of treatment“That orders not to practice any type of resuscitation: “Nine times he was revived – explains one of the leaders of the Association who supports his battle for a death ‘in dignity’ – and more and more degeneration of your state. No longer has hope, he is a prisoner of his body ”. The objective of the action, explains the manager. Sophie Medjeberg, is to cause an “electric shock” that prompts the approval of a law on assisted suicide in the model of Belgium and of Switzerland.

(in the photo two screenshots of his live broadcast)