After the Supreme Court Ruling on the right-to-die case in 1995, the Irish Medical Council was deeply unhappy. The court had ruled that keeping someone alive via gastrostomy tube feeding amounted to medical treatment, not just to care. As such, then, it could be lawfully discontinued. A member of the Medical Council, Dr John Monaghan, speaking on his own behalf, said afterwards in an interview, published the next day, that any doctor who cooperated with this Supreme ruling ma

Personally, I'm all in favour of assisted suicide and, under the appropriate conditions, can see the need for it to be made legal. But what are the "appropriate conditions"? That's the burning question. First of all, I think the decision to opt for assisted suicide needs to be a shared one and not one taken by an individual alone on their own behalf in secrecy. Secondly, there needs to be a grave cause for such a decision. By this, I mean severe, retractable pain, terminal il