Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion

Dr. Tom Jeanne:

I am not sure I could make a statement interpreting that. Many of the changes are mostly due to demographics. At the beginning of our experience in the late 1990s, there were very few people using this, and it has grown. On the trends over those 25-plus years, you have to be cautious in interpreting them when you go way back to the beginning.