Was the death of Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand declared to be a natural death or suicide?

papo2228

Francois Mitterrand died of prostate cancer according to the official certificates. From Wikipedia, Francois Mitterrand. Aug 03 09, 9:09 PM

rb6359

Mitterand died of prostate cancer. There are suggestions that he "ended his own life" by stopping the treatmenmt and drugs being used for the cancer. http://philosopedia.org/index.php/Francois_Mitterand Aug 03 09, 9:14 PM

Watchkeeper

He died of cancer (which had spread from the prostate), hastening the end by refusing treatment. I suggest that is a natural death rather than suicide. "In 1994, when the world press announced his prostate cancer (he kept it a secret for fifteen years!), Mitterrand, a declared atheist, met with a devoutly Catholic French philosopher to discuss death. The philosopher, Jean Guillot, 93, told reporters that Mitterrand confided that the doctors had given him no more than six months to live, that his major goal was to live until at least 7 May 1995 in order to complete his second seven-year term. In a television interview, asked what he would say when he arrived “who knows where,” Mitterrand replied drily, “Eternity is a long time.” (In fact, he did live out his term of office.) Mitterrand ended his own life by halting the drug treatment against the cancer that killed him. Roland Dumas, a close friend and a former Foreign Minister, said over television, “A few days before his death, he told me, ‘Now I have my philosophy.’ ” He had asked his physician, Jean-Pierre Tarot, what would happen if he stopped taking all drugs except painkillers, and the physician told him he would be dead in three days. The day Mitterrand stopped the treatments, he died." http://philosopedia.org/index.php/Francois_Mitterand Aug 03 09, 9:18 PM