The Indo Daily: How a WhatsApp message told an Irish family that their mother had died by assisted suicide

The Indo Daily: How a WhatsApp message told an Irish family that their mother had died by assisted suicide

The Indo Daily

A Cavan-based woman, Maureen Slough, went abroad to die by assisted suicide, and her family only learnt of her death via WhatsApp.

That’s the harsh reality facing her family and friends.

Maureen’s daughter Megan Royal talks of her mother’s mental well-being and her trip to a Swiss clinic where she made the decision to die by assisted suicide.

But why were her relatives kept out of the loop?

Today on the Indo Daily Kevin Doyle is joined by Megan, who will tell us about her mother's secret journey to the Pegasus Clinic in Switzerland, and by Conor Feehan, senior journalist with the Irish Independent, who has been looking into such clinics and asking questions about