Daniel McConnell: Dignity law would have allowed Marie Fleming die in peace

Relatives watch their loved ones face into their final days and experience such cruelty because of a national failure to treat them as adults and allow them to determine their fate, writes Daniel McConnell

Tom Curran and Marie Fleming on one of their harrowing visits to the Four Courts in 2013, when the High Court and the Supreme Court rejected Marie’s bid to lawfully receive assistance dying. She died later that year. First introduced by John Halligan, the Dying with Dignity Bill aims to permit assisted dying under certain circumstances. Picture: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

Should you have the right to die with dignity?

Should you as a conscious being be able to determine how you exit this world?