During his campaign for re-election, French President Emmanuel Macron made a commitment to open the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia. For years, tension has been growing between those in favor of changing the law to introduce active assistance in dying and those who do not want France to move beyond the current law.1 Under the 2016 Claeys-Leonetti law, terminally ill patients can request to be kept in a “deep, continuous sedation altering consciousness until death,” only if their condition causes "great suffering" and is likely to lead to a quick death. Euthanasia is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Spain under certain conditions. In Switzerland, assisted suicide is allowed where the patient takes a lethal dose of drugs themselves. Every year, French patients travel to these European countries in pursuit of options to end their life. On September 13, 2022, President Macron announced the launch of a national debate to explore the possibility of legalizing end-of-life support. The Prime Minister, Elizabeth Borne, followed this announcement with a letter addressed to Thierry Beaudet, President of the Conseil Économique, Social et Environnemental (CESE), requesting a Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life (Convention Citoyenne sur la fin de vie, or CCFV) to engage with French citizens and to enrich the national debate on this subject. A 2021 law adopted following the first French Citizens’ Convention for the Climate (CCC), empowered the CESE with greater authority. So far known as the chamber of organized civil society, it has been given a new mandate to engage with citizens and lead participatory practices – effectively creating a new institution for incorporating the informed common ground view of French citizens.