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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Is there evidence from other countries that the so-called right to die has been transitioned to a duty to die? Is there evidence that familial pressures have resulted in the rocketing statistics elsewhere and that the procedure is not of the patients' choosing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: That leads to my next question which concerns the medical profession. Last week there was a disagreement between two delegates. One said a doctor did not have to be involved. Does Professor O’Neill agree that there would be an imposition on the medical profession if any regime was imported and that there is no regime anywhere that excludes doctors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: How have they justified their actions under the ethical framework or principles Professor O’Neill has described?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Professor O'Neill mentioned different membership patterns in the UK and Irish human rights commissions. Has he communicated his concerns about the over-concentration of lawyers and the absence of philosophers to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in that context?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I thank Dr. Campbell for her submission and her presentation. We heard from Professor Desmond O'Neill in the previous session. How does Dr. Campbell balance the principle of autonomy with the framework of care? How does a doctor square the argument of beneficence, non-maleficence, doing no harm, justice and the other fundamental ethical principles? How does Dr. Campbell balance the care...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: How does assisted suicide benefit a person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: How is it doing good, or how is it not doing harm, if one defines assisting a someone's death as doing something that is not harmful? How does Dr. Campbell square that philosophically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: That can happen anyway-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Under a palliative care treatment algorithm, can we not relieve that pain and harm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Can Dr. Campbell name an international medical framework that incorporates assisted suicide under the treatment algorithm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: As in the treatment of patients - that is what doctors do. Can Dr. Campbell name a medical framework that incorporates what her submission has detailed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Are they medical frameworks or are they legal frameworks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: At the conclusion of her submission, Dr. Campbell noted "not until vast improvements are made in the provision and organisation of services to support those living with disability, mental illness or chronic physical conditions and in the provision of accessible, effective palliative care services should any legal changes be implemented". Is Dr. Campbell saying that we need to hit the utopia...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Would the witness have concerns about some of the other jurisdictions that have extended this practice to children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did Dr. Campbell say earlier that data should not be incorporated in the arguments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Excluding data, should assisted suicide be extended to children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Can Dr. Campbell give an example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Professor O'Neill noted that the decriminalisation of assisted suicide "was certainly never seen to be an expression of a societal desire to extend access to suicide as a human right, or to position suicide as an act that equality legislation might facilitate". Does Dr. Campbell have any concerns about the potential normalisation of the act of suicide and bridging the gap in terms of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I have read a part of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: He makes the argument that it could normalise suicide as it is defined presently.