Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I think we can agree there is no such thing as a right to die. One justification for what can be called assisted suicide is that sometimes people might be suffering unbearably or might be terminally ill. Presumably, care has changed considerably from 100, 50 or even 30 years ago. Are the days of people dying in unbearable suffering over or does that still happen?
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