Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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I was struck by the whole question of what is dignity, and I was thinking about it in the context of the terrible stuff we are witnessing happening in Gaza now. For me, it is a fundamental principle that everybody has dignity and always has dignity. The question is whether the person's dignity is being respected in a given situation. This is why I do not like the term "dying with dignity", because it implies that unless you do something, you do not have any dignity. Everyone has dignity. It is inherent in us all because we are human. The question is whether the witnesses are confident it is possible to honour people's dignity in full without changing the law to allow assisted dying and euthanasia to be brought in.