Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion

Professor Theo Boer:

I will. I am not able to answer this question because, as I said, the ratio in the Netherlands is 50-50, so I have never thought about that issue. Maybe my colleague from Switzerland has done so.

Regarding the ethics of Sarco suicide thing, is that the spaceship that people enter and it is then floated? It makes me sad, really, because it signifies a manageability of suffering.