Fears life insurance payouts create "economic incentive" for assisted dying under new French law
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On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, the law on aid to die appeared in the Official Gazette, after its promulgation by the President of the Republic. A text that gives concrete expression to a debate that has passed through French society for several years, affecting almost every family, each having been confronted by close or far with the question of the end of life. The reform of the end of life thus reached a decisive stage.
Fears life insurance payouts create "economic incentive" for assisted dying under new French law
Life insurers must pay out in instances where death has occurred as a result of assisted suicide or euthanasia, according to a carve-out in the new French assisted dying law. This has raised concerns that this will create an “economic incentive” to end your life by assisted dying under the new law. A provision in France’s new law announced earlier this week by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, requires that life insurance policies pay out i…
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