"Why, oh why can't I die in peace?"

Joan Allenden attributes the stigma around assisted dying to stubbornly ingrained Catholic guilt still present in Irish society.

Every evening, Joan Allenden vents into her trusted recording device in a full-blooded attack. She fires her words like tiny missiles to channel the overwhelmingly emotional and physical turmoil built up throughout the day.

While the audio diary entries vary, her question remains the same.