Health campaigners support allowing terminally ill people to end their own lives

Vicky Phelan. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Leading cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and Tom Curran, husband of Marie Fleming, will publicly voice their support for a new bill aimed at allowing terminally ill people end their own lives.

Ms Phelan, Mr Curran, and Gail O’Rorke — who was acquitted of attempting to help her friend Bernadette Ford travel to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland, and of assisting her eventual suicide — are to speak at a press event next Monday in support of the Dying with dignity bill.