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End of life medical care sees itself governed by laws which make medical information about diagnosis and lethal prognosis an obligation arising from the patients’ right to know. A precaution would, however, appear to respect the will to ignorance shown by the patient. A will to ignorance that we present as a veritable passion to ignorance that must be respected so that psychological life can persist in proximity to death in reality. This article will highlight the existence of an aporia of any passion to ignorance supported by the subject, with regard to this legal constraint to which the Léonetti Law subjects them: the writing of the anticipated directives requiring from the patient that they express their last wishes concerning their end of life care.