Marie Fleming’s partner: I helped dozens to plan their deaths

The partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming says he helped dozens of seriously and terminally ill people plan their deaths with loved ones who risk jail for assisting them.

In a plea to the Government to legislate for assisted dying, Tom Curran said the current situation ignored the reality that people facing prolonged and difficult deaths were secretly arranging to have their lives ended at a time of their choosing.

He said it was inhuman that they had to live with the threat of a criminal prosecution for assisting with a humane act, and he revealed that he still feared a garda investigation into his role in assisting Marie to die in December 2013.