The Dean of Jersey, the Very Reverend Mike Keirle, told the States he was worried people could feel pressured to go down the assisted dying route.
He said autonomy can be subject to many “external pressures”.
“It would be fantastically naive to think that people won’t come under some kind of indirect societal pressure,” he said.
“As the old saying goes, where there’s a will, there’s a family.”
Most members voted in favour of an opt-out for health professionals, giving them a right to refuse to participate in assisted dying.
A majority of the assembly also voted for a minimum timeframe, proposed to be 14 days, between the point at which a person makes a first formal request for assisted death and the administration of the substance that leads to death.
