Un rapport suspect à la rédemption ?

While since 2016, the Leonetti Claeys law has given the right to avoid all suffering at the end of life, some people prefer to abstain from sedation and face suffering that seems unbearable to us. How can we take such a position seriously, without a suspect relationship with redemption redemption? This question will lead us to draw on both philosophy and theology. Our compass will be Ricoeur's enigmatic expression “I suffer therefore I am”, leading us to question the link between suffering and life. After a look at the theology of retribution and its limits, we’ll see that, although suffering can drive people away from life, drug treatments that diminish it can also diminish the feeling of being alive. Suffering could even, to a certain extent, bring life: although it may be a terrifying force, it could also be a driving and transformative force. So, despite suffering (or through it), if human accompaniment is a reality, the ordeal of the end of life could, at times, offer the opportunity for a kind of fulfillment.