Choosing to Die?

Thank-you for listening to Season 2, Episode 8 of the Equip Project Podcast. We hope you enjoyed it. Here are some resources to help you explore this topic further:

• Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 - Bill entitled an Act to make provision for assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life to qualifying persons and related matters.

• Hope Ireland Dying with Dignity Bill Briefing Notes - Hope Ireland is a coalition of medical professionals and disability rights advocates who aim to bring informed perspectives to the debate around euthanasia and assisted suicide in Ireland. We seek to contribute to the public discourse on this issue with evidence based arguments on why the introduction of assisted suicide and euthanasia is a regressive step for vulnerable people – particularly the elderly and those with disabilities.

• Living and Dying Well - Clear thinking on the end of life debate - Living and Dying Well explores the complexities surrounding the debate on !assisted dying! and other end-of-life issues.

• Association of Palliative Medicine - The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM) is the world’s largest representative body for doctors practicing or interested in Palliative Medicine, with a growing membership of over 1,000.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) - The members of the EPC believe that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be treated as murder / homicide, irrespective of whether the person killed has consented to be killed.