Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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Therefore, if a person's autonomy is interpreted so as to allow him or her to avail of assistance in ending his or her life directly through euthanasia or indirectly through assisted suicide, there is an indirect effect because the person requires the support of a third party. People will have concerns about whether that will lead to a corruption of medicine or a change in the attitude of doctors. Will those doctors and others or, indeed, institutions, for example, hospices giving care, be required to make a referral whereby for them to refer in that situation is to refer to something harmful? Are they to be required in certain circumstances to provide it on their own premises because the third party, for instance, the State or some other authority, determines that the person's right to this procedure outweighs their right to do no harm as they see it? Do these issues not arise?