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:

Looking at the data from Oregon, people there are asked why they choose assisted dying. The number of people who say it is because they feel they are a burden to others has gone up from around one third to over half. Over half of people are saying that the reason they are doing it, in part, is because they feel are feel a burden. That is a kind of internal pressure.