Both a doctor and professor of moral theology, the author analyses the justificatory discourse of persons wishing to have recourse to assisted suicide. He shows that this is in large measure built upon the emphasis placed on the intolerable character of a bio-mental organism altered by illness. Faced with these suicidal persons who reject the body to the point of destroying it, theological reflection can appeal to other ways interpreting to avoid this dualism. In particular, the Franciscan tradition which values an extremely fertile friendship for the body. Starting from these reflections the author develops a pedagogy of consent to the wounded body and the capacity to live moments of grace with it. Ways are open comprising the re-education of the meanings of beauty, the reinvestment of the body as a place of life and of tenderness and hospitality, which allow one to advance in common along the path of life.