Facebook blocks terminally ill Frenchman from streaming his death
Facebook has said it would block the livestream of a Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition who wanted to broadcast his death on the social mediaplatform.
Alain Cocq announced on Facebook on Saturday he was now refusing all food, drink and medicine after French President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia.
Cocq, 57, has been suffering from a rare degenerative disease for 34 years that causes the walls of his arteries to stick together.
He said he believed he would die in less than a week and would broadcast his death from Saturday morning from his home in Dijon, northeast France.
Cocq had written to Macron asking to be given a substance that would allow him to die in peace, but the president wrote back to him explaining this was not allowed under French law.
France's neighbours Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands have adopted laws that allow medically assisted dying in some cases.
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