There is no mercy in killing

AS a nurse with many years experience in the area of terminal care I feel I must put on record my outrage at the HSE funding of a pro euthanasia lecture in University Collage Hospital, Cork.

As co-founder of the “Nurse for Daniel” charity, our function was to provide funding for nurses to care for dying children in their own homes.

My contribution as a nurse was to screen the applicants, work with those families that qualified for funding, and help the families and the nurses through the very painful process of giving the dying child the care needed to ease their suffering, and help the families to cope.