End of life: change of president but no line at the head of SFAP, the palliative care lobby

“Head down and horn forward, like a good goat of Monsieur Seguin” : Claire Fourcade liked to identify with the “Blanquette” Letters from my Windmill at the beginning of her last speech as president, Thursday, June 19, of the French Society for Palliative Care and Support (SFAP). In front of 3,000 caregivers and volunteers participating in the annual congress of this learned society, in Lille, this palliative care doctor from the private hospital of Grand Narbonne (Aude), "daughter of the South and the scrubland" , made official her decision not to seek a new mandate after a five-year term at the head of the SFAP, a record length beaten.

Her departure had been planned for over a year. But it comes just over three weeks after the first reading of the bill establishing a "right to assisted dying" was passed in the National Assembly on May 27. A bill that Claire Fourcade fought against like "Daudet's goat." on behalf of the palliative care medical community's opposition to the idea of ​​"having to give death" to a patient, even at their request and within the framework of the law.

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