Tom Curran: ‘I helped Marie to die according to her wishes’

Tom Curran and his partner Marie Fleming unsuccessfully campaigned to allow him assist her to die. He tells Caroline O’Doherty why he is now risking jail by disclosing that in fact he did assist her to die in 2013

WHEN Marie Fleming died, the last thing her grieving partner expected was to find himself part of a comedy duo cracking jokes on stage about voluntary euthanasia.

And yet he has recently performed at his second international comedy festival in the darkly comic and controversial show, Dicing With Dr Death, drawing laughs for what on the surface appears to be no laughing matter.