This article by Csongor Hetényi is a co-winner of the 2026 RJSP Prize. Hemicycle de l'Assemblée nationale, Parti socialiste, Flickr, licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Architecture of Assisted Dying: Lessons from the French Parliamentary Debates of February 2026 In February 2026, the French Assemblée nationale cast its sounding line to plumb the uncharted depths of its law on the end of life, testing whether assisted suicide could find a place within the French medical-legal or