An Oireachtas Committee is to recommend that laws are introduced for assisted dying.
It would only be allowed if the person has a terminal illness and short time to live.
The Joint Committee on Assisted Dying was set up last year to consider laws around a person’s right to end their life.
A majority of the TDs and Senators on the committee have now voted the law should be changed to allow someone receive assistance to end their life if they’ve between 6 to 12 months to live.
It would apply to people with a medical condition that is incurable and irreversible.
The illness must also be causing suffering which can’t be relieved to a degree that a person could tolerate it.
The full report will be released later this month with the issues being described as complex and sensitive.
Professor Siobhan McHale is a consultant liaison psychiatrist in Beaumont Hospital.
She has serious reservations about the prospect of introducing assisted dying………….
