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An Irish court rules on the balance between right to life and freedom of religion

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland
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  • May 2 2011

A life-saving blood transfusion was administered to a three-month-old baby recently contrary to the express wishes of the child's Jehovah Witness parents

Guidelines on assisted suicide

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 10 2009

Although committing or attempting to commit suicide is not a criminal offence in Ireland or Britain, it must be achieved without assistance from anyone

Law Reform Commission proposal on living wills

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • November 10 2009

In a 2003 survey, 25 per cent of Irish physicians said they had dealt with patients who had made an advance care directive (a Directive