The sports journalist, suffering from Charcot's disease, gave an interview to Audrey-Crespo Mara on TF1 thanks to the reconstruction of his voice by artificial intelligence. He returns to the text of end of life, pending since the dissolution of the National Assembly.
Affected by Charcot's disease, journalist Charles Biétry, figure in sport and the media, hopes “a start [des] rulers “French on the subject of the end of life, failing which he will” commit suicide in Switzerland “.
“I want the deputies and senators – not all – who did not do the job” and have “forgotten the French”, he says in the program “Sept à Huit” Sunday on TF1.
“A law would give serenity in freedom
The examination of the text of the end of life has been late. “I am waiting for a start from our rulers, let them vote for this law unanimously”, press Charles Biétry, 81 years old. This law would give “serenity in freedom”, he judges.
Prime Minister François Bayrou said that he wanted this bill, the exam of which was interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly last summer, be dissociated to treat palliative care on one side and on the other helps him die.
“Going to commit suicide in Switzerland is not the dream of my end of life” and “palliative care, if there is a law, may do the case”, discount Charles Biétry. But “if in France the conditions are not met for a gentle and almost calm death, I will go to Switzerland”, he insists.
For the show, The former journalist had hit his computer answers in advance. If he can still move to a certain extent, it is an artificial intelligence that has reproduced his voice for this television program.
Car “The words are in my head and I can't get them out”he explains, letting go: “I have a few weeks or months left to live.”
-“I want to take advantage of it and do everything in my power to help research and other patients,” he said since his carnac residence (Morbihan).
Charcot's disease, incurable, is characterized by a progressive paralysis of the muscles, and a life expectancy not exceeding three to five years, once the diagnosis is posed.
In “The last wave“, His memoirs to appear on January 29 at Flammarion, Charles Biétry recounts the announcement of the disease in August 2022, and” deaf anger “, the” feeling of injustice “which then rises.
“This charcot is strong”, but “I'm at war”he assures on TF1, by entrusting taking an unauthorized treatment in France.
Charles Biétry has marked the world of sport and the media of the last 50 years, having revolutionized the relationships between football and TV.
He is also the author of a scoop on the death of Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games on September 6, 1972, when he was a reporter for AFP.
