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Alan Cook, 57, who has suffered from a degenerative disease for 34 years, said he will post his death on Facebook starting Saturday morning.
Cook posted a video clip containing his image from his medical bed at his home in Dijon, eastern France, saying, “I finished my last meal, I drank from your health for the last time, the path to salvation begins, and believe me, I am happy”.
“I made my decision in peace,” he added.
He had written to Macron requesting that he be given a sedative to allow him to die in peace, but Macron wrote explaining that “this is not allowed by French law.”
The countries bordering France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands have adopted laws allowing death with medical assistance in some cases. France, under pressure from the Catholic Church, resisted the measure.
“As I am not above the law, I cannot comply with your request,” Macron said in a message to Cook, which the Frenchman posted on his Facebook page.
Macron said: “His wish is to seek help for death, which is currently not allowed in our country.”
The Claes-Lyonetti End-of-Life Law, adopted in 2016, authorizes continuous, deep anesthesia until the patient dies, but only for people whose diagnosis is threatened in the short term.
Cook has called for “a change in French law to allow medically assisted death in cases like his.”
You are drip-fed and your digestive system is connected to the colostomy. His condition caused an aneurysm in his brain, and he said he “suffers from seizures if he doesn’t take his medication and is in constant pain.”
