Last week's death of Chantal Sébire has provoked an emotional reaction in France likely to result in a change in the law, to allow doctors a limited right to assist a patient's suicide. The way the French decide the issue could be a lesson to Britain, suffering similar legal defects and uncertainties. Sébire, a 52-year-old former teacher with three children, developed a rare, incurable form of cancer, which gradually destroyed her senses of smell, taste and sight and disfigured her face grotesquely, so that, she explained on television, children ran away at the sight of her.
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