Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion

Photo of Emer HigginsEmer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Even currently with the law on people aged over 74 not in place, as Professor Boer said in his statement, he is still seeing a shift in terms of the rationale for people presenting to patients who fear years or decades of loneliness, limitation and care and dependency, rather than people who have impending illness. Is that the current situation?

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