RTÉ Broadcaster Says He Wants To End His Life If He Ever Becomes Terminally Ill

Irish broadcaster Derek Mooney says he wants to end his life if he ever becomes terminally ill.

The 46-year-old RTÉ personality says watching his mum and brother suffer agonising deaths made the decision for him, the RTÉ Guide reports.

He said: “I’ve told everyone I know to put me on a plane to Switzerland because that is how I’d like to end my life.

“Religion doesn’t come into it. If you don’t have a quality of life, you don’t have a life.

“I’m not one for pain. Maybe it’s also because I’m on my own that my views are coloured that way.

“Maybe I have a different view because I don’t have a family or kids, I don’t have a wife or a partner. That could be the reason.

“But I’m also a practical person and I don’t believe in dragging things out unnecessarily for myself.”

Derek said he made the decision after watching his mother and brother suffer. 

Derek's admissions come after Marie Fleming's partner Tom Curran gave a heartbreaking interview on the Late Late Show last Friday, just days after the Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on assisted suicide.