Euthanasia debate filled with cynical doublespeak

In George Orwell’s masterful novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four – which I read every summer, and eerily seems more prescient each and every year, ‘doublethink’ and ‘newspeak’ are used to describe how the establishment uses intentionally ambiguous speech to distort and obscure reality. It came to mind as I watched the hearings of the Oireachtas committee on…