# right-to-die - Saturday 8 January, 2022
# Euthanasia
# Euthanasia
Hours before dying Victor Escobar, 60, celebrated what he called victory in his two-year battle with a lung ailment that left him unable to breathe on his own.
# right-to-die - Sunday 2 January, 2022
# Vicky Phelan
# Vicky Phelan
Campaigners, including Vicky Phelan, have called on Government to introduce laws to allow for medically assisted death.
# right-to-die - Monday 14 September, 2020
# Dying With Dignity
# Dying With Dignity
The Dying with Dignity Bill will be introduced in the Dáil tomorrow.
# right-to-die - Thursday 11 July, 2019
# Vincent Lambert
# Vincent Lambert
He died more than a decade after an accident that left him with severe brain damage.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
# Euthanasia
# Euthanasia
Prominent Right to Die with Dignity campaigner Tom Curran appeared before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality today.
# right-to-die - Friday 9 June, 2017
# Charlie Gard
# Charlie Gard
Charlie Gard’s parents want to take the 10-month-old to the US for an experimental treatment.
# right-to-die - Sunday 11 December, 2016
# Assisted Suicide
# Assisted Suicide
Halligan is now trying to find a workable mechanism that will bring the bill before the Dáil.
# right-to-die - Monday 21 November, 2016
# Assisted Suicide
# Assisted Suicide
Halligan said he is planning to introduce a bill proposing to make assisted suicide legal in Ireland.
# right-to-die - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
# Euthanasia
# Euthanasia
Independent TD John Halligan introduced ‘right to die’ legislation in the Dáil today.
# right-to-die - Saturday 12 September, 2015
# Brittany Maynard
# Brittany Maynard
Opponents said the measure could prompt premature suicides.
# right-to-die - Thursday 10 September, 2015
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
California is set to legalise the practice.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
# Vincent Lambert
# Vincent Lambert
The video was taken last Friday — the same day that the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Lambert should be allowed to die.
# right-to-die - Friday 5 June, 2015
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
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.
# right-to-die - Thursday 4 June, 2015
# Euthanasia Debate
# Euthanasia Debate
He is on life support after a car accident.
# right-to-die - Monday 13 April, 2015
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
The first trial of a person charged for assisting suicide will take place this year.
# right-to-die - Tuesday 6 January, 2015
# Mercy Killing
# Mercy Killing
The rapist had repeatedly asked that the state help him end his life due to “unbearable” psychological suffering.
# right-to-die - Saturday 3 January, 2015
# Marie Fleming
# Marie Fleming
Here’s a look at the situation in other countries.
# right-to-die - Monday 29 December, 2014
# RIP
# RIP
The High Court ruled on St Stephen’s Day that doctors could withdraw life support for the woman.
# right-to-die - Thursday 6 November, 2014
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
As a compassionate society, must have the courage to face up to the question of terminal illness and euthanasia.
# right-to-die - Monday 3 November, 2014
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer earlier this year.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 8 October, 2014
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
“I don’t want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms.”
# right-to-die - Wednesday 1 October, 2014
# Legislation
# Legislation
Kate Tobin was diagnosed with the condition two years ago and says “Nobody can know the pain I’m going through”.
# right-to-die - Saturday 30 August, 2014
# Marie Fleming
# Marie Fleming
Tom Curran, the partner of campaigner Marie Fleming who died last year, says new legislation he’s been working on is almost complete.
# right-to-die - Thursday 21 August, 2014
# Assisted Suicide
# Assisted Suicide
From 2008-2012, two Irish people went to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Assisted Suicide
# Assisted Suicide
Paul Lamb wants the legal right to end his life with the help of a medic.
# right-to-die - Monday 31 March, 2014
# Recommendations
# Recommendations
The report of the Constitutional Convention recommends the removal of the blasphemy offence from the Irish Constitution.
# right-to-die - Sunday 9 March, 2014
# Sunday Interview
# Sunday Interview
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.
# right-to-die - Saturday 8 March, 2014
# Tom Curran
# Tom Curran
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.
# right-to-die - Thursday 13 February, 2014
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
In total, there were 86 votes in favour and 44 against from the country’s lower House of Representatives.
# right-to-die - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
Dignitas helped a total of 202 people to die last year.
# right-to-die - Sunday 22 December, 2013
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
The grief and mourning for the 59-year-old was palpable in Avoca today.
# right-to-die - Friday 20 December, 2013
# RIP
# RIP
She was 59 years old.
# right-to-die - Friday 13 December, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# right-to-die - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Eamon Gilmore has said that the issue of assisted suicide should be addressed in response to questions in the Dáil this morning.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
# Courts
# Courts
Gail O’Rourke of Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght is charged with assisting in the suicide of another woman in Dublin in 2011.
# right-to-die - Wednesday 29 May, 2013
# Right To Die
# Right To Die
Enda Kenny was asked to ‘show some compassion’ to the family of terminally ill Marie Fleming and consider changes to the law.
# right-to-die - Monday 29 April, 2013
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# Landmark Case
# Landmark Case
Chief Justice Susan Denham said the circumstances were “very tragic” but that there was no Constitutional ‘right to die’.
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