CervicalCheck campaigner Vicky Phelan said wants a law enabling people with terminal illnesses to die by assisted suicide.

In an interview with Virgin Media One aired on Monday, Ms Phelan said she feels people who are terminally ill should have a choice in deciding how and when they should die.

“I’d actually had a phone call from Gino Keny, a TD who was bringing this bill forward again. It was brought forward in 2015. And then it didn’t go through like a lot of things. And he had asked me would I help him support it.

“I said , ‘Absolutely.’ I have huge invested interest in this, I think people should have a choice. Because unfortunately, in my position, I wouldn’t be able to get on the plane now and go to Switzerland or Oregon because I wouldn’t get there because I’m known at this stage,” she said.

“And as well as that, I wouldn’t like to do that. Because I want to die at home in my own country. I don’t want to have to go somewhere else and have my poor family travel over and then travel back with a coffin.”

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