Facebook has prevented a French man with an incurable illness from streaming his own death on the social media site, according to a company statement.
Alain Cocq, 57, from Dijon in eastern France, has a rare incurable medical condition that causes his arteries to stick together.
Cocq previously lobbied President Emmanuel Macron to allow him to die by"active medical assistance" but was unsuccessful. "Would you withstand, Mr President, having your intestines emptied into a pouch, having your bladder emptied into a pouch and that you are fed by a pouch, that a third party must bathe you, to be crippled by unbearable pain?" Cocq wrote in the letter.
However, he said he could not comply with the request because he is"not situated above the law" and could not ask someone"to overstep our present legal framework."
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