Souffrance de fin de vie : jusqu'où médicaliser ?

What are the limits to the medicalization of the end-of-life period? The evolution of pain management over recent years can be used as a model. The progress made has been achieved along with societal changes relating to greater well-being, but also to increased fragility. Foucault and Illich challenge this control exercised by a Biopower verging on disappropriating the patients of their own health. Nevertheless, it is impossible for us to stray away from this path hallmarked by humanization and concern for the weakest, in medicine as in social life, as mirrored by the social protective network developed in all countries, without political distinction.