An expert in treating mental health for cancer patients has told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide that “it would be a travesty if assisted dying became a substitute for assistance in living.”
Professor Anne Doherty, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and former chair of the Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry, told the Committee during an opening statement as the Committee met to discuss the topic of protecting autonomy and assessing decision making capacity.
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