# right-to-die - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
Prominent Right to Die with Dignity campaigner Tom Curran appeared before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality today.
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# right-to-die - Friday 9 June, 2017
Charlie Gard’s parents want to take the 10-month-old to the US for an experimental treatment.
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# right-to-die - Sunday 11 December, 2016
Halligan is now trying to find a workable mechanism that will bring the bill before the Dáil.
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# right-to-die - Monday 21 November, 2016
Halligan said he is planning to introduce a bill proposing to make assisted suicide legal in Ireland.
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# right-to-die - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
Independent TD John Halligan introduced ‘right to die’ legislation in the Dáil today.
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# right-to-die - Saturday 12 September, 2015
Opponents said the measure could prompt premature suicides.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 10 September, 2015
California is set to legalise the practice.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
The video was taken last Friday — the same day that the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Lambert should be allowed to die.
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# right-to-die - Friday 5 June, 2015
The man’s parents had been fighting to keep him on life support though his wife had said he would not want to be kept alive.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 4 June, 2015
He is on life support after a car accident.
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# right-to-die - Monday 13 April, 2015
The first trial of a person charged for assisting suicide will take place this year.
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# right-to-die - Tuesday 6 January, 2015
The rapist had repeatedly asked that the state help him end his life due to “unbearable” psychological suffering.
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# right-to-die - Saturday 3 January, 2015
Here’s a look at the situation in other countries.
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# right-to-die - Monday 29 December, 2014
The High Court ruled on St Stephen’s Day that doctors could withdraw life support for the woman.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 6 November, 2014
As a compassionate society, must have the courage to face up to the question of terminal illness and euthanasia.
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# right-to-die - Monday 3 November, 2014
Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer earlier this year.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 8 October, 2014
“I don’t want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms.”
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 1 October, 2014
Kate Tobin was diagnosed with the condition two years ago and says “Nobody can know the pain I’m going through”.
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# right-to-die - Saturday 30 August, 2014
Tom Curran, the partner of campaigner Marie Fleming who died last year, says new legislation he’s been working on is almost complete.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 21 August, 2014
From 2008-2012, two Irish people went to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
Paul Lamb wants the legal right to end his life with the help of a medic.
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# right-to-die - Monday 31 March, 2014
The report of the Constitutional Convention recommends the removal of the blasphemy offence from the Irish Constitution.
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# right-to-die - Sunday 9 March, 2014
The partner of Marie Fleming, whose court battle ignited a national campaign on right-to-die issues, is running in the the local elections this May.
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# right-to-die - Saturday 8 March, 2014
Tom Curran has asked a group of barristers to draft legislation on the issue, and says the initial work could be completed by the start of next month.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 13 February, 2014
In total, there were 86 votes in favour and 44 against from the country’s lower House of Representatives.
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# right-to-die - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
Dignitas helped a total of 202 people to die last year.
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# right-to-die - Sunday 22 December, 2013
The grief and mourning for the 59-year-old was palpable in Avoca today.
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# right-to-die - Friday 20 December, 2013
She was 59 years old.
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# right-to-die - Friday 13 December, 2013
Today, the case began of Gail O’Rorke who has been charged under the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993 for assisting an MS sufferer to die.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 21 November, 2013
Eamon Gilmore has said that the issue of assisted suicide should be addressed in response to questions in the Dáil this morning.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
Gail O’Rourke of Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght is charged with assisting in the suicide of another woman in Dublin in 2011.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 29 May, 2013
Enda Kenny was asked to ‘show some compassion’ to the family of terminally ill Marie Fleming and consider changes to the law.
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# right-to-die - Monday 29 April, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Today, seven judges from the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Marie Fleming, who had sought to be allowed an assisted suicide without the risk of prosecution for anyone who helped her, but where to next with this contentious debate, asks Dr Eimear Spain.
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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Chief Justice Susan Denham said the circumstances were “very tragic” but that there was no Constitutional ‘right to die’.
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# right-to-die - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The court will deliver a verdict in the case of Marie Fleming who is seeking to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.
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# right-to-die - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, wants to overturn the laws which make it a criminal offence to help someone take their own life.
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# right-to-die - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
By not ordering the DPP to issue guidelines on factors which would influence a prosecution for carrying out an assisted suicide, Marie Fleming and others in her situation have been left in legal limbo, writes Dr Eimear Spain.
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Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, is to take her court case to the Supreme Court after she lost a High Court case on the ban on assisted suicide.
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