She will blow out 95 birthday candles on July 2. Line Renaud, symbol of vital energy continues on her merry way with a valiant heart. In a few weeks she will start shooting the movie, The Next Trip. She will find Jean Sorel, the legendary actor of Sandra by Luchino Visconti. Together they will embody a couple who want to die the same day in the hotel where their love was born. This scenario and its story are for her a metaphor for her fiercest fight, death with dignity.
In an interview with our colleagues from Paris Match, the one who was successively a bubbly popular singer, a formidable magazine leader, an inexhaustible fighter in the fight against AIDS alongside her friend President Jacques Chirac, returned to which will certainly be her last act as an activist.
Optimistic, she welcomes the results of the work of the 184 members of the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life. “… They worked for 4 months on a question, it is true, difficult. At 76%, they declared themselves in favor of active assistance in dying, within the framework of euthanasia or assisted suicide. this is what I have been calling for for so many years, with, among others, my friend Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, now honorary president of the ADMD, the Association for the right to die with dignity, of which I am the godmother”.
For the moment, the government, through the voice of the Minister of Health François Braun, and despite the conclusions of the Convention, seems rather to want to “strengthen the existing” rather than to draft a new law which could once again crack society. But for Line Renaud the current legislation, fixed by the Claeys-Leonetti text of 2016, must evolve: “I want condemned patients to no longer be left to suffer. We don’t have to suffer anymore. I want to leave, but calmly, surrounded by those I love…”
Line Renaud does not imagine that the text on the end of life that she calls for will not be voted on. If this is not the case, she is even ready to ignore political decisions: “…It’s decided: without the law, I will die resisting.” We can believe her. Courageous, obstinate, the northern accomplice of Dany Boon is faithful to her convictions and to the people she loves, even in adversity. She was the last to visit Pierre Palmade after the terrible accident he caused.
