Dying With Dignity:The Importance of Choice at End of Life
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Helen O'Shaughnessey |
TEDxDunLaoghaire
• October 2018
Since graduating in 1981, Helen's nursing experience extended to include Midwifery working in Scotland for four years before working in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Yemen and moving to Australia and New Zealand where she stayed for 28 years. Helen loves the big outdoors, sport, hiking, cycling .and swimming and as a keen triathelete, participates regularly in marathons and Ironman events. Her professional experience extended further taking her from Midwifery to be a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist Nurse and was the only nurse in NZ able to prescribe exercise to patients. As an active Humanist and accredited celebrant in NZ, she moved back to Ireland in 2017 to care for her sister who was terminally Ill. Dying with Dignity she feels is a fundamental human right something not afforded to her sister, or many others. She has actively campaigned for social change, including abortion rights, separation of church and state, Removal of Blasphemy Laws from the Irish Constitution.