Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent)
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It is helpful. It is just that I do not think of them as people who operate from fear or ignorance. One tends to think of them as people who are at the coalface. Is it that they see downsides for others if they change their role? Mr. Ahern mentioned prolonging life. They would probably see themselves as not being able to prolong life but helping people to live as well as possible, or to live well and die well, as it were.