French MPs divided over 'existential' euthanasia bill The current law allows only deep sedation of patients suffering from incurable illnesses but no help for people to end their life. Share Via Email | A+A A- By AFP PARIS: A bill to legalise euthanasia was set to go before a deeply divided French parliament on Thursday, with right-wingers planning to torpedo any vote with thousands of amendments and the government not taking sides. If the draft law were to pass, France would become the fifth European Union country to decriminalise assisted suicide, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain. The bill was brought by Olivier Falorni from a centrist group of MPs called Freedom and Territories, and he plans to use Thursday's National Assembly time allotted to his party to fight for a proposal that he says raises "existential questions".