Behind the scenes of the final preparations before the euthanasia debate

“Hello, your number has been drawn to participate in the end-of-life citizens meeting. It is an exercise in participatory democracy that we offer you.” Crammed into a call center room, ten young employees made a chain of phone calls to find the last participants in a citizens’ convention dedicated to the end of life. A few days before this event, the time for final preparation has come. And in such a sensitive consultation, likely to lead to an anthropological rupture, no detail is overlooked.

The citizen “panel” draw, conducted by Harris Interactive subcontractor Le Terrain, was conducted from a database of 100,000 cell phone numbers before a judicial regulator to ensure the neutrality of the selection. “D-9! Do not panic, on December 9 there will be 150 citizens.launched by Claire Toury, President of the Management Commission responsible for this citizens’ convention, sought by Emmanuel Macron and whose…