TELEVISION – It’s an interview like no other. For the show Seven to Eight broadcast this Sunday, January 26 on TF1, Charles Biétry spoke via artificial intelligence which recreated his voice. At 81, the former journalist and sports director of Canal+ suffers from Charcot’s disease, which today prevents him from speaking.
Karine Brailly, suffering from Charcot’s disease, died after obtaining deep sedation
As explained The Parisianjournalist Audrey Crespo-Mara previously sent her questions to which her guest responded in writing. It was then that artificial intelligence software reproduced Charles Biétry’s voice identically for his responses. The whole “with his consent”.
“The words are in my head and I can’t get them out, so we cower and risk losing contact with the outside world.”he explains to Parisian from his home in Carnac in Brittany, he who now only communicates using a computer.
Charles Biétry hopes “a start from our leaders”
During this interview, Charles Biétry said he hoped “a startle [des] rulers » French on the subject of the end of life, otherwise he will go “commit suicide in Switzerland”. “I blame the deputies and senators – not all – who did not do the job” and have “forgotten the French”he said.
Prime Minister François Bayrou indicated that he wanted this bill, the examination of which had been interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly last summer, to be separated to deal with palliative care on one side and on the other helps him to die.
“Going to commit suicide in Switzerland is not my end-of-life dream” et “palliative care, if there is a law, will perhaps do the trick”expected Charles Biétry. But “if in France the conditions are not met for a gentle and relatively calm death, I will go to Switzerland”he insisted.
-“I have a few weeks or months left to live”he confided again. “I want to take advantage of it and do everything in my power to help research and other patients”added the one who commented live on the first football match in the history of Canal+ in 1984.
Charcot disease, incurable, is characterized by progressive paralysis of the muscles, and a life expectancy not exceeding three to five years, once the diagnosis is made.
In The last wavehis memoirs to be published on January 29 by Flammarion, Charles Biétry recounts the announcement of the illness in August 2022, and “dull anger”the « sentiment d’injustice » which then rise. “This Charcot is strong”more “I am at war”he assured in Seven to Eightby confiding in taking a treatment not authorized in France.
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