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Giant of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard chose to end life through assisted dying
Jean-Luc Godard the maverick French-Swiss director who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe, died by assisted dying, his lawyer has confirmed. The medical report on the death of the 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life. He “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure” because he was “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard’s legal council, Patrick Jeanneret, told AFP. The influential director was said by his family to have died “peacefully at home” with his wife, the Swiss film-maker, Annie-Marie Miéville. Godard, who was born in Paris in 1930 to a Franco-Swiss family, had lived as…
