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2008-07-28 3:20

EXIT - LE DROIT DE MOURIR un film de Fernand Melgar

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On ne connaît ni le jour ni l’heure. Quand une maladie survient, avec les douleurs, la déchéance, nous voilà face à la mort. Ce qui reste à vivre apparaît comme terrible et angoissant. Comment épargner une douloureuse agonie, à soi-même comme à ses proches? La Suisse est le seul pays au monde où des associations telles qu’EXIT proposent, en toute légalité, une assistance au suicide pour les personnes en fin de vie. Depuis plus de vingt ans, des bénévoles accompagnent malades et handicapés vers une issue qu’ils estiment plus digne. Dans ce documentaire, accompagnateurs et accompagnés abordent la mort de front. Non comme un tabou, ni comme une fin inacceptable, mais comme une délivrance. Dans une société qui tend à tout maîtriser, ils nous renvoient à cette question d’ordre intime : choisir sa mort n’est-ce pas notre ultime liberté?Documentaire | 76 minutes | 2005 | couleur | format 16/9 | stéréo www.climage.chNo one knows the day or the hour. When illness strikes, accompanied by pain and physical decline, there we are, faced with death. The outlook on what remains of life appears dismal and full of anguish. How to spare oneself, and one’s closest family, painful agony? Switzerland is the only country in the world where associations, such as EXIT, quite legally provide suicide assistance to people at the end of their lives. For over twenty years volunteers have accompanied sick and handicapped people towards a death of their choice that seems more dignified to them. In this documentary, these escorts and the people they accompany tackle death head-on. Not like a taboo or an unacceptable end, but like a release. In a society tending to control everything, they refer us back to this quintessential, intimate question: Is choosing our death not our ultimate freedom?Documentary | 75 min. | 2005 | color | 16/9 | betacam digital

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Added: July 27, 2008

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