Charles Biétry, 79, is suffering from Charcot's disease, an incurable disease. He organized his assisted suicide in Switzerland.

"I don't want to suffer and especially make my family suffer," he says. "To keep my spirits up, I need sport. The day I can't ride a bike anymore, it will go very fast," he tells "L'Equipe" in an interview with the French daily. "You have to take the last stamp yourself. This gesture, it's easy to say 'I'm going to do it' when I'm by the sea in Carnac"