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.