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He said the bill would build on the work of a group of 184 randomly
appointed French citizens who have debated the issue since December.
They concluded their work this weekend with 76% of them saying they
favoured allowing some form of assistance to die, for those who want
it.
Macron did not say whether he wanted euthanasia or assisted suicide
to be allowed in France or if the bill would include either or both.
He said thinking on the matter would continue by then but consensus
was important on such a sensitive matter.
France's national council of doctors, l'Ordre des medecins, has said
it opposes involving doctors in helping people kill themselves.
Assisted suicide - where medical personnel give someone the means to
kill themselves - or voluntary euthanasia - where a physician plays
an active role to end a person's life at that person's request - is
allowed in several countries in Europe.
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since the 1940s.
Euthanasia is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and
Spain, and last year an Italian man, paralysed 12 years earlier in a
traffic accident, died in Italy's first case of assisted suicide.
There are heated debates in other EU countries including Portugal.
Some other countries accept only passive euthanasia, where, at the
patient's request, some medical treatments are stopped, causing the
person's death.
(Reporting by Ingrid Melander and Blandine Henault, editing by Mark
Heinrich)
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