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The first person prosecuted and acquitted under Irish assisted suicide laws, Gail O'Rorke, talks to R\xf3is\xedn Ingle about why she has no regrets about trying to help her friend Bernadette Forde die as she wished.\n\nMs Forde suffered from Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, meaning her health was never going to get any better. Gail O'Rorke was her cleaner, but became her best friend and carer in the years before her death.\n\nWhen Ms Forde's health had deteriorated to a point that she felt she could no longer go on, O'Rorke made a failed attempt to arrange for them to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland where she could take her own life. \n\nIn 2011, Bernadette Forde successfully procured a lethal drug over the internet and died in her home. \n\nIn this podcast, Gail O'Rorke talks to Roisin Ingle about her friend's death and why despite the ordeal she went through in the aftermath, that she would do it all over again.\n\nCrime or Compassion?: One Woman\u2019s Story of a Loving Friendship That Knew No Bounds, by Gail O\u2019Rorke, is published by Hachette Ireland