Keith Barry says euthanasia should be an option in Ireland after father’s cancer battle

Keith Barry has spoken candidly about his father’s death from cancer and how he wishes euthanasia was an option for people in Ireland.

Barry appeared on the on The Grief Pod with Venetia Quick less than three weeks after his father died.

The father and son were extremely close, with Barry describing his dad as his “best buddy,” and one of the lads.

People even told Barry that the relationship he had with his father was the “golden standard” of what a father-son relationship should be, he confessed.

“He was a very pragmatic man and he passed that down to me, he was a very sarcastic individual and he passed that down to me as well, so I think that helps you deal with grief,” Barry says.

His father was diagnosed with a rare form of stage four lung cancer roughly two years before his death, having never smoked.

There weren’t many treatments for the cancer, but “they blasted him with chemo and radiation and all that kind of stuff that they do, and it worked…

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