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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses. I concur with a lot of what Deputy Farrell just said. I know Dr. Cranfield probably thought she was illustrating one thing but it further cemented another thing for me, which was the phases of intervention and how they may change over time. The interventions are probably as transient as the want to die in the sense that our condition can change and increase and our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What about for those who do not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Would Dr. Cranfield sit with them if assisted dying was legal and they asked for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: As an individual who understands death, can Dr. Cranfield imagine herself not sitting with someone who chose to die differently than she imagined for him or her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What if it includes the option that is being made legal, which is assisted dying? Does Dr. McQuillan then see herself removing herself from the room?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Statistically, if we look at how many people die by the time they get the hospice care, it is usually right at the end of life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not mean for younger people who end up in a hospice but people with what are usually end-of-life conditions such as a cancer diagnosis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What percentage of cancer patients, for example, at end of life would end up in hospice care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If that percentage of people were in hospice care, they will potentially die in a hospice and that is the reason they are there, and if they chose under a legalised model that they want assisted dying, and, say, their proximity to death is fairly close and they want to bring that forward, is Dr. Doré saying under a legalised model that hospice would say it would not facilitate that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Even though the person is one, two, three, or six weeks away from death would they be moved? It does not feel like patient-centred care then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Where would the patient go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am not talking about that. I am talking about someone who chooses that, under a model and where it is legal and they are in the hospice and will die very soon. Families are being called in. We know the person is going to die, whatever the number of weeks put on it. We have a ballpark figure. The person says that under this model, they would like to access assisted dying because they do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am thinking of the patients Dr. McQuillan spoke about who she sat with and who refused medication. That is already a right, in that people can withdraw their desire to have any sort of treatment or to eat or drink. Senator Mullen spoke about the moral pressure when things change. However, the end result there is that an intervention that goes against all the other principles people put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why does the idea of someone withdrawing medical care not have the same impact as assisted dying? You could say the same because we allow for the right to refuse medication legally. Why has that not had a knock on effect on everybody who might think they will do that when they see that people want to avail of assisted dying? The public support is there with people saying they want to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Then you would not give people morphine. It would not be medicalised at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is not nature taking its course. We intervene to prolong deaths. That is not nature taking its course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not agree with nature taking its course because if one goes back to the invention of palliative care, medicalising death has already happened in how we prolong life at a particular stage or give medication. Allowing something to take its natural course does not include morphine or painkillers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why does it? That is also a human invention. How is that the natural course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why is the capacity of one's mind to choose to die not part of the natural course? If we can say that all these instances and external things form part of nature, then some people's minds and their capacity to choose something is also within that field of nature.