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June 8, 2016
Tom Curran Admits Helping Dozens Die
Irish Times, Sorcha Pollak & Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
Tom Curran, the partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming has said in an interview with the Irish Examiner that he helped dozens of seriously and terminally ill people plan their deaths with loved ones. Mr Curran also admitted that he still fears a Garda investigation into his role in assisting his wife to […]
May 22, 2016
Elderly Importers of Lethal Drug are Getting Pinged by NZ Customs
Elderly New Zealanders are falling foul of the law by being caught importing potentially fatal doses of Nembutal from China and Mexico. Those who have had their shipment discovered at the border include one Nelson couple in their eighties who were visited and warned by the police, although no charges were laid. New Zealand residents, mainly […]
May 19, 2016
Dutch doctors allow 20-something, sex abuse victim euthanasia
WHEN we think about euthanasia, many of us picture an elderly person. They’ve had many good years, but an illness has ruined their quality of life. They’re in pain, and they want to end things on their own terms. For many people, this is an easy concept to accept. But a recent case in the […]
April 22, 2016
Exit Life Member Emeritus Professor Avril Henry Suicides at 81
Daily Mail UK, Martin Robinson (Chief Reporter)
Campaigner: Dr Avril Henry, 82, an advocate of assisted suicide, has been found dead days after a police raid sparked by an Interpol alert that she had imported euthanasia drugs from Mexico An 82-year-old professor has died days after police kicked down her door when Interpol traced assisted suicide drugs to her Devon cottage from Mexico. […]
April 19, 2016
Cannabis kept my wife going, Irish assisted dying campaigner tells Nelson group
Cannabis provided by the local policeman helped to prolong his wife’s life, Irish assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran has told a Nelson audience. Curran’s wife Marie Fleming died in 2013 after a failed court bid to permit an assisted death. Before and since, he has continued to campaign for people’s right to choose. He is […]
April 12, 2016
Visting Euthanasia Advocates Securing their Own Way Out
The Dominion Post, Rachel Clayton
Tom Curran and his wife Marie Fleming, who died of Multiple Sclerosis in 2013 after a failed legal fight to legalise euthanasia in Ireland. Ann Mace organised for her mother to starve to death. “She had a stroke and was left totally, completely and utterly paralysed and I had to say I don’t want her […]