End-of-Life, Controversies and Conceptions of the Person
The world of end-of-life is traversed by two moral enterprises in France. One is implemented by palliative care providers who rely on the legitimacy of science and medicine as the basis for their approach; the other is that of the advocates of active assistance in dying who use emotional rhetoric to produce an intolerable narrative that forces the legislator to intervene and take their claims into consideration. Behind the discourses made by the different actors, two figures of the sick person appear. One is isolated, the other is part of a group; one refers mainly to his biological body, the other to his psyche. In fine, two conceptions of the person with different properties are confronting each other here.