“Until the last moments, life is still there.” In Nantes, in the house of Nicodemus.

“Finished”, he was informed at the hospital. When Richard arrived at Nicodemus’ home, the doctors only gave him up “A few days to live”. It was two months ago. Since then, she has become a popular patient with the teams at this new palliative care home.

House of Nicodemus, which opened last April in Nantes, is one of those places where life bursts through every corridor. In this modern building of light and green, he finds his way until the last hours of his existence. ““Sad, slow, dead,” is what people mean when they talk about palliative care. Here we deconstruct these clichés– says Karine, one of the team’s physiotherapists. Everything that gives taste and desire to patients, we try to find it.”

With his medium-length hair, bluesman voice and gold hoop in his ear, Richard, who looks like he stepped out of a Jack Kerouac novel, took this principle literally. Wild, resistant to authority, refusing…