Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion

Professor William Binchy:

If somebody comes to a person and says, "My marriage has collapsed, I am out of a job, life is bleak and I want to take my own life", the argument could be made that there is no reason the second person should say to the first, "No, do not do it."