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

Alzheimer's Disease is cruel and unrelenting. It quickly destroys a person's life, stripping them of their personhood and character. In a lifetime, fortunately, it usually strikes later, although it does not always spare the young either. What makes it even more horrible, if such were possible, is that, in our present state of knowledge, there are no really useful treatments. So when some glimmer of hope eventually does come along, it is naturally of some considerable interes