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Jean-Luc Godard chose to end life through assisted dying, lawyer confirms

Jean-Luc Godard chose to end life through assisted dying, lawyer confirms


Jean-Luc Godard chose to end life through assisted dying, lawyer confirms
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Jean-Luc Godard, the maverick French-Swiss director who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe, died by assisted dying, his lawyer has confirmed.

Godard, who was born in Paris in 1930 to a Franco-Swiss family, had lived as a virtual recluse in the Swiss village of Rolle for decades.

In France the law allows doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death but stops short of allowing assisted dying.

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