Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion

Dr. Anita Ambikapathy:

In other jurisdictions it was originally and now it is not for Belgium and the Netherlands. It is not just mental health or mental illness as a whole, there are specific groups. There are special cases, specifically in the Netherlands, for example, where a young person was allowed to proceed with this purely based on their diagnosis and mental health. To say that it is simple to put that little ring fence around it is incorrect. It would be very difficult and very complex.

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