The High Court is to rule today on a landmark case challenging the law criminalising assisted suicide.
Paralysed former UCD lecturer, Marie Fleming is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis and wants to end her life at her home in Wicklow in the arms of her partner Tom Curran.
Marie Fleming said the court case was her chance to ask for the right to die with peace and dignity while she still has a voice.
The 58 year old who is paralysed and in constant pain wants the current outright ban on assisted suicide struck down as unconstitutional.
She says the law should allow for competent and incurably ill people like herself to end their lives at a time of their choosing, without the fear that those who assist in their death will face criminal charges.
The State, in reply, argued that there is no right to suicide and that the current ban on assisted suicide protects vulnerable people from involuntary death.
The case was heard by a divisional High Court made up of three judges who will give their ruling today.
