Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion

Dr. Faith Cranfield:

It is very difficult for us to do our job and to thoroughly and wholeheartedly respond to someone who wishes they were dead. Part of how we do so is to value them and their lives even when they do not value them themselves, until they do so again. The vast majority of people will value their lives again. They will want to be alive today and tomorrow.