The last moments of Lydie, a Frenchwoman who came to Belgium to die: “You’re sure I won’t wake up anymore, aren’t you?”

“My head still works fine, but my body no longer wants to cooperate. I don’t want to live on like a plant,” said Lydie Imhoff. And so the 43-year-old Frenchwoman traveled to our country at the beginning of this month to receive euthanasia. Journalists from the AFP news agency were there when she spoke to a Brussels psychiatrist for the first time last year and followed her until her death. You can read her story below.

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