A carer who became the first person in Ireland prosecuted for assisting suicide has talked about her relationship with her deceased friend and the times she faced questioning from gardaí.

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

Gail O’Rorke said she collapsed and “screamed and screamed” after she was told she would be charged with assisting in the suicide of her friend Bernadette Forde.

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. 

A woman has been cleared of attempting to assist the suicide of her friend by helping her travel to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.

A 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 due to a lack of evidence.

A woman accused of helping her friend take her own life denied to gardaí she knowingly paid for lethal drugs for the deceased.

A Dublin woman accused of assisting her friend's suicide told gardaí: 'I'm glad she did what she felt she had to do. I'm glad she didn't tell me".

The trial of a woman accused of assisting her friend’s suicide has heard the deceased’s nephew had “no problem” helping her travel to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of assisting the suicide of her friend has heard the recorded last words of the deceased.

‘Suicide tourism’ is on the rise, with the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives doubling in four years.

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Dignitas says an Irish resident was among those who died through their services last year.

A 65-year-old woman and her son have been arrested after police suspected they were planning to take her husband to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland to commit suicide, sources said.

A 65-year-old woman and her son have been arrested after police suspected they were planning to take her husband to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland to commit suicide, sources said.

Campaigners for legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide in Italy are planning to set up a sister organisation in Ireland as part of a strategy to force a Europe-wide change in law.

The end has been a long time coming, and even today it is still in the distance.

Former university lecturer Marie Fleming fears she will choke or starve to death if the courts do not let her end her life with assistance.

A terminally-ill woman has today pleaded with judges to spare her a horrible death and let her be helped to die lawfully with dignity, surrounded by her family.

The High Court will begin hearing a landmark case in which a terminally ill woman is looking for permission to end her life.

A specially convened, three-judge division of the High Court is to decide whether a 59-year-old woman, in the final stages of multiple sclerosis, has a constitutional right to an assisted suicide.

Four Irish people every week seek advice on how to help a loved one end their life from an international group campaigning for the legalisation of assisted suicide.

ENDURING intense pain and suffering because of an auto-immune disease that affects the central nervous system, Marie Curran asks: “If I want to die, why won’t you let me do so with dignity? Instead I must suffer a debilitating pain and degrading death.”

Lawyers for a stroke victim who wants help to end his “intolerable” life can continue to act on his behalf without fear of prosecution or disciplinary action after a High Court ruling.

IRISH laws relating to assisted suicide must be reviewed to make provision for a small minority of people in such physical distress they wish to end their lives, a human rights medical expert has warned.

WRITER Terry Pratchett said that watching a man being helped to die had reaffirmed his support for assisted suicide, while anti-euthanasia groups criticised the televised death as propaganda that could encourage copycat suicides.

The BBC has defended its decision to film a man’s last moments at the Dignitas clinic in a documentary fronted by Terry Pratchett.

AN Irish woman in the final stages of multiple sclerosis has been effectively blocked from travelling to Switzerland with a close friend following claims she was seeking to die by assisted suicide.

Pro-choice grop Exit International Ireland has described as "shocking" the case of two Irish women who tried to travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide, but learned they could be liable for prosecution if they did so and then cancelled their plans.

Two Irish women have been prevented from travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide, after intervention by the Gardaí.

Actor Patrick Stewart has declared his wish to be allowed an assisted death.

The last moments of a terminally ill man who travelled to an assisted suicide clinic to end his life will be shown in a documentary presented by best-selling author Terry Pratchett.

The Swiss government has rejected calls to ban assisted suicide groups such as Dignitas but will propose rules to restrict their work.

A WOMAN who walked free from court a decade ago after the attempted mercy killing of her husband has ended her own life in a Swiss clinic, it emerged yesterday.

There are calls for a debate on decriminalising assisted suicide in Ireland.

MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy yesterday won a legal bid to force the government to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

At the same time, who knows how any of us would react to a diagnosis of any extremely painful and incurable – if not strictly terminal – disease? As many as a third of Irish doctors say they have been asked by patients to helpend their lives

BRITISH maestro Edward Downes, who conducted the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera has died with his wife, Joan, at anassisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was 85 and she was 74.

THE founder of Swiss assisted suicide clinic Dignitas defended his organisation last night.

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday he was personally opposed to assisted suicide, ahead of the broadcast of a programme in which a terminally ill man is seen ending his life.

Footage showing a man ending his own life in an assisted suicide will be broadcast on British television tonight.

An Australian woman who helped her Alzheimer's victim partner commit suicide was sentenced to jail today.