Frenchman banned from Facebook for ‘right to die’ protest admitted to hospital

Terminally ill French man Alain Cocq, who was blocked from live-streaming his final days on Facebook, has now accepted palliative care after he refused food and medication for more than three days.

Cocq, 57, had to be admitted to hospital just days after using his situation to raise attention to the conditions of terminally ill patients in France who are not allowed to die in line with their wishes. “I am sorry but I need some serenity to depart in peace,” he said through his spokesperson, lawyer Sophie Medjeberg. It was Medjeberg who explained to the media that Cocq had been admitted to the main hospital in the city of Dijon on Monday.

“He is suffering too much, it was too hard,” Medjeberg said on Tuesday. “He still wants to go but without suffering.” Medjeberg said she did not know if the doctors would resort to “deep sedation that could lead to a coma that could be irreversible or send him back home with a mobile unit for palliative care”.

Medjeberg went on to say that she did not know at the moment if doctors would resort to “deep sedation that could lead to a coma that could be irreversible, or send him back home with a mobile unit for palliative care”.

Cocq had recently sparked a multimedia frenzy after he complained to French president Macron that he just wanted to stream his own death on Facebook- but wasn’t allowed to do it.