Charles Biétry suffering from Charcot's disease: “Swallow it myself…”, this planned solution but which he wants to avoid

Charles Biétry answered questions from Audrey Crespo-Mara in Sept à Huit. The journalist suffering from Charcot's disease returned to his choice to die with dignity while explaining that he wanted to avoid having to go to Switzerland to end his life. his days.

© TF1 Charles Biétry suffers from Charcot disease.

IN BRIEF

• Charles Biétry, a journalist suffering from Charcot's disease, expressed his desire to die with dignity during an interview broadcast on January 26, 2025.
• He criticizes the lack of legislation in France on assisted death and expresses his wish to avoid assisted suicide in Switzerland.
• Charles Biétry hopes for a law to die with dignity, emphasizing the importance of freedom of choice at the end of life.

It is a testimony of rare intensity that Charles Biétry delivered, in Sept à Huit, Sunday January 26, 2025. The journalist suffering from Charcot's disease has lost the power of speech and has accepted that his answers to Audrey Crespo-Mara's questions be transcribed using artificial intelligence. Once again, he recalled his right and his desire to die with dignity.

“It's hard enough to die, but dying badly is double punishment“, he said at first before adding: “suffering in the depths of a hospital bed, suffocating, no longer having the slightest exchange with those you love and who are hurt to see you hoping for death while knowing that there is no way out, it's hard“. Today, the journalist can no longer speak, and has great difficulty moving. Eating is also difficult.

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Charles Biétry: “Going to commit suicide in Switzerland is not my end-of-life dream”

“When we hear on television sets those who campaign against us who want to leave with dignity or simply choose in complete freedom, it is abject. A law will give serenity in freedom“, he further declared. “I expect the deputies to vote for this law unanimously and that I can wait for death peacefully without being a burden to my loved ones.”

Before seeing the hope of this law, he had said to himself that he would go to Switzerland, where assisted death is legal. Only, he would like to be able to avoid it. “Going to commit suicide in Switzerland is not my end-of-life dream. Unknown doctors, swallowing the last pill myself and knowing that my wife and two children will return to France with the funeral urn in the trunk… The more I think about it, the less I want to“, he confided with a heavy heart.

Charles Biétry intends to die with dignity

Even though he hopes to be able to avoid this trip to Switzerland for his last days, he nevertheless explained that he has already sorted everything out. “If in France the conditions are not right for a death gentle and more or less calm, I will go. All the papers are signed, the family circle agrees.” Until his last breath, he will be able to count on his wife, present with him for 45 years. “We will laugh until the end“, he said, looking at her.