Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:

I thank Deputy. I will say that it is certainly not our intention to cause distress or to be pejorative in any sense, so we tried to ensure that language would not be used.

The language of “burden” is something that I, as a clinician, have heard a lot of people discuss with me. Older people have felt they were a burden. It is a word people have used in my clinical experience. There was no intention to use that word in a pejorative way in any sense at all. Dr. Twomey may wish to comment on the issue of people not being afraid of dying, but rather, how they die.