End of life. MPs approve all the conditions for access to the right to assisted dying.

After three days of bitter debate, MPs approved on Tuesday all the conditions required for a patient to be eligible for the right to assisted death.

The article, adopted by 164 votes to 103 (the opposition coming mainly from the right and the far right), provides for five cumulative conditions.

First, age, the person must have reached at least 18 years of age.

Amendments by LFI MPs to allow sick minors aged 16 and over to apply with their parents' consent were rejected on Saturday evening.

Then, be of French nationality or reside in a stable and regular manner in France.

For the author and co-rapporteur of the bill, Olivier Falorni, the right to assisted dying "must be part of a comprehensive care package" that only a stable residence allows.

Left-wing MPs have denounced the legal residence criterion, seeing it as an attack on the universalism of the social protection system in France.

The third condition requires that the person be suffering from "a serious and incurable condition, whatever the cause, which is life-threatening, in an advanced stage" or "terminal." The concept of "advanced stage" has been a matter of debate among MPs for several weeks, with some considering it too vague.

The government adopted an amendment on Monday based on a definition adopted by the French National Authority for Health (HAS), characterizing the "advanced phase" as "the entry into an irreversible process marked by the worsening of the sick person's state of health which affects their quality of life."

Opponents of the bill have denounced the concept, which they say would open up assisted dying to patients who still have "several years to live." Its advocates argue that it would, in particular, open up the right to people suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Fourth condition, the person must "present physical or psychological suffering" which is "either resistant to treatment or unbearable depending on the person" when they have chosen not to receive or to stop treatment.

On Monday evening, Horizons, Liot, and LR MPs adopted amendments emphasizing that psychological suffering must be "constant" and, above all, that "psychological suffering alone cannot, under any circumstances, qualify for assisted dying."

Finally, the last condition requires that the person be able to express their wishes freely and in an informed manner. The deputies therefore rejected amendments aimed at allowing advance directives to be taken into account.

The vote on the entire text, in first reading, is scheduled for Tuesday, May 27. More than 1,299 amendments remain to be considered.