Right-to-die will may have ignored legal advice

ROSEMARY Toole Gilhooley, the first person in Ireland known to have committed assisted suicide, is likely to have brushed aside legal advice when she named four high-profile right-to-die activists as beneficiaries of her will.

Ms Toole-Gilhooley left money to the four North American activists, a move destined to fail amid objections from the executors supported by the State.

Three of the four, the Rev George Exoo, David Humphrey and Evelyn Martens, have waived their right to fight for the money. The fourth, the founder of the Canadian Right to Die Society, John Hofsess, is still contesting the move.