Gail O'Rorke
from Róisín Meets Podcast Hosted by Róisín Meets Podcast
The first person prosecuted and acquitted under Irish assisted suicide laws, Gail O'Rorke, talks to Róisín Ingle about why she has no regrets about trying to help her friend Bernadette Forde die as she wished. Ms Forde suffered from Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, meaning her health was never going to get any better. Gail O'Rorke was her cleaner, but became her best friend and carer in the years before her death. When Ms Forde's health had deteriorated to a point that she felt she could no longer go on, O'Rorke made a failed attempt to arrange for them to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland where she could take her own life. In 2011, Bernadette Forde successfully procured a lethal drug over the internet and died in her home. In this podcast, Gail O'Rorke talks to Roisin Ingle about her friend's death and why despite the ordeal she went through in the aftermath, that she would do it all over again. Crime or Compassion?: One Woman’s Story of a Loving Friendship That Knew No Bounds, by Gail O’Rorke, is published by Hachette Ireland
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