Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion

Professor David Albert Jones:

The special rapporteur on the rights of people with disabilities made that point in relation to Canada. I do not think so in other respects but I think in this respect it does. It means that a distinction is made between people for whom we are going to go the extra mile to try to prevent suicide and other people for whom we are going to facilitate them ending their lives. That is making a distinction between people. That is why I talk about egalitarianism.