Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Tom Curran:

Certainly not everybody who dies in Oregon dies of assisted suicide. In fact, it is quite a small proportion. People have to initiate the process themselves and that is where the safeguards come in. There are not people going around looking for people to die. The rate of assisted dying has definitely increased in all these countries but the rate of dying has not increased.

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