An incurably-ill man has brought the latest stage of his legal fight for a "dignified death" to the High Court in England.

Gail O’Rorke was acquitted of attempting to assist the death of her friend who was suffering from multiple sclerosis last year.

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

Disability rights campaigners go to the High Court in England to challenge the prosecution policy in relation to the law on assisted suicide.

Germany parliament has passed a bill allowing assisted suicide for “altruistic motives” but banning the practice in cases where it is being conducted on a “business” basis.

The death of a healthy and active retired nurse who ended her life at a Swiss suicide clinic to avoid deteriorating in old age is a “deeply troubling” case that sends a “chilling message” about society’s views of elderly people, a campaign group said.

A man with locked-in syndrome has launched a right- to-die legal challenge against guidelines preventing doctors from assisting patients to commit suicide.

Independent TD John Halligan is set to introduce a Dáil bill that will remove any criminal sanctions against a family member or doctor who assists a suicide.

Gail O’Rorke, who was recently found not guilty of helping her friend to end her life, has said that she had been convinced she was going to jail.

Right to die campaigner Tom Curran says a soon-to-be introduced Dáil bill allowing assisted suicide will be about safeguarding vulnerable people.

The world famous physicist Stephen Hawking has revealed that he would consider assisted suicide if he were in great pain or had nothing left to contribute to the world and had become a burden to loved ones.

FATE DEALT Bernadette Forde savage blows, but the State also ensured that her final days and hours were lacking peace of mind, writes Michael Clifford. 

YET AGAIN, ministers were happy to talk horse manure rather than do anything, writes Shaun Connolly.

A taxi driver has been found not guilty of attempting to assist the suicide of a wheelchair bound friend suffering the final stages of multiple sclerosis.

The jury in the trial of a taxi driver in connection with the alleged assisted suicide of an MS sufferer have begun their deliberations.

The assisted suicide trial of Dublin woman Gail O'Rorke has been hearing closing arguments today.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of helping her friend take her own life has been ordered to find her not guilty on two of the three charges against her.

An assisted suicide trial has heard today that Gail O'Rorke was to receive around 30% of the late Bernadette Forde's estate.

The jury at the trial of a 43-year-old woman charged with assisting the suicide of another, has been played the last recorded words of the deceased.

A Dublin taxi driver has gone on trial in connection with the assisted suicide of an MS sufferer – the first prosecution of its kind in the country.

The Vatican’s bioethics chief has called the assisted suicide of an American woman with terminal brain cancer “reprehensible”.