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⚠️ Sensitive content: this post discusses a person who has died.
𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘂𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 🥀
Arnaud was a French actor, theatre director and playwright. His career was shattered after he received an implant for an inguinal hernia. He suffered severe adverse effects and went on to develop severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
We are sharing excerpts from an exchange we had with him on September 21, the day before he left for Belgium to undergo euthanasia.
“I would like you to speak publicly after I am gone. I am severely affected, at a very advanced stage, and I have chosen to set myself free. I am thinking of all my brothers and sisters in this fight.
Tomorrow morning, I will leave for Belgium, my final destination. After three years, I cannot go on anymore. I have no muscles left, no digestion. The physical suffering has become far too severe.
I want to make it clear that my personal choice should not influence anyone else. My death should help the public and the medical system understand just how serious, and sometimes seemingly without a way out, severe myalgic encephalomyelitis can become.”
Here is also the final message he posted on his Facebook page this morning:
facebook.com/arnaud.denis.79…
Arnaud was a tireless campaigner, denouncing the silence surrounding the adverse effects of polypropylene implants.
His own criminal complaint was dismissed without further action. On September 18, Arnaud wrote:
“No justice for me. Just like for thousands of victims of polypropylene hernia mesh implants in France. One final blow. One final humiliation. My criminal complaint has been dismissed. It feels as though I am being trampled into the ground.”
A newspaper article published on September 18 also discussed his case:
ledauphine.com/faits-divers-…
An activist until the very end, he posted this video last night:
facebook.com/reel/1612207400…
💙 Arnaud will remain in our thoughts. He joins the thousands of people with ME who have left this world, victims not only of the disease, but also of institutional medical abandonment.