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Article: PRIEST DYING OF MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE SAYS: Now I know why my fellow sufferers often try to kill themselves.(News)
- Article from:
- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2001
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Byline: JOSIE MCNULTY
A DYING Irish priest last night told of the cruel disease that will kill him - and said he understood why sufferers might want to take their own lives.
Fr Aengus Fegan, 74, knew he was facing death the day he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.
But the Capuchin friar has tried hard to live with the dreaded illness which killed the actors David Niven and Cyril Cusack.
He told us he can fully understand the desire of English sufferer Diane Pretty, 42, to be allowed to commit ...