Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I engage with people in palliative care who speak about the objective of living. When a devastating diagnosis is first given to someone, they project forward and imagine. I am sensitive to people throughout the country who are listening to this and thinking they do not want this option and those who will want it as an option. There is a change in the quality of life. The definition of "quality of life" changes as people move through an illness. Perhaps they become event focused. They think about making it to a child's holy communion or being present as opposed to walking up the aisle at a child's wedding. I am mind-mapping and those in the medical field will be quite insightful.