In 2002, Jean-François Mattei, Minister of Health, the Family and the Handicapped, entrusted Hennezel to research and report on the end of life. This report (End of life, the duty to accompany) (October 2003) inspired the parliamentary mission on the accompaniment of the end of life, and the law of April 22, 2005, (Rights of the sick and the end of life) is an extension of it.
