Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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Dr. Campbell talked about the transparency in the Netherlands but there was an appalling case, which Dr. Campbell referenced but did not detail, where a woman who had requested assisted dying well in advance was sedated to prevent her from objecting and, when she struggled, it was basically forced.

Is that not the reason people have to be worried that this actually changes everything? Once you decide that certain lives can be taken with the permission of the State, is it possible to have safeguards? Do you not inevitably face up to a situation where it slips into people's thinking that it is okay to end a person's life in one way or another?