In giving their judgment in Ireland's right to die appeal case 1996, the following points were made by the majority of the five judges involved: Withholding of medical treatment is lawful. Artificial nutrition and hydration are medical treatments, not just care. Everyone has a right to refuse medical treatment, even if that refusal should lead to death. The Ward (the person on whose behalf the application was being made) had limited capacity, if any. Therefore, the courts had

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

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