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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

...real challenge of caring holistically for terminally ill patients as they approach the end of their lives. Third, doctors and nurses are given privileged access to the human body and to the use of drugs, so that they can serve life and health. Assisted suicide presumes that doctors and nurses will be directly involved in the taking of human life. We believe this undermines the essential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

..., patients and their families, showed how poor the system was for communication, and how patients who were unknown to out-of-hours doctors and palliative nurses were unable to get medical advice or drugs out of hours. The international experience has been alluded to by others, which has shown problems in management and oversight.The issue of the slippery slope has very much reared its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

..., who is holding the final responsibility, who is holding the prescription pad and who is there at 3 a.m. when the palliative care nurse is in the house and needs advice about a change of drug. It seems that despite all the modern communication systems, it is all written on paper but nobody is passing it. For example, it goes in the post but does not get to the GP or the patient may have...