Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion

Dr. Matthew Dor?:

That is an incredibly good question. As Professor Watson said, it is almost an operation. Someone with a messy spare room that is completely scattered with everything has a choice. They can either work at it, fix it and make a nice spare room or they can destroy it and remove that spare room from their house. The latter is not fixing the problem. It is just removing the spare room from the house. One needs to have the time and energy to spend with the patient to work through those things. As the Deputy will know, and people have said before, once these things are addressed, the request for dying diminishes or disappears.

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