This article describes the residential trajectories and places of residence of patients over their last month of life, based on the end-of-life survey La Fin de vie en France, conducted in 2010 on a representative sample of deaths occurring in December 2009. The physicians who had certified the...

En France, près de la moitié des décès (48 % en 2010) a été précédée d'une décision médicale ayant pu hâter la mort du patient. Mais des médicaments ont été donnés pour mettre délibérément fin à la vie dans seulement moins de 1 % des cas. Les décisions prises s'appuient dans...

In France, almost half of deaths (48% in 2010) are preceded by a medical decision that may hasten death. But only in 1% of cases are drugs administered to deliberately end life. The large majority of decisions taken are based on the provisions of the Leonetti Act, which enables physicians, under...