Irish Mother Lies to Her Family to Kill Herself

A tragic story about a self-assisted suicide has come to light. The story is different because of the deceit surrounding the incident. Typically, when a person chooses to commit suicide, it is not uncommon for family members to be unaware when or where death occurs. When Maureen Slough decided to take her life, there was a twist; she actively misled her family about what she was really doing.

On July 8, 2025, the fifty-year-old mother from Ireland secretly traveled to a clinic specializing in assisted suicide called Pegasos Swiss Association. The Association “believes that it is the human right of every rational adult of sound mind, regardless of state of health, to choose the manner and timing of their death”.

Before Slough traveled to Pegasos, she hid the decision from her family. Instead of telling the truth, Slough used WhatsApp to let them know she and a friend were going to Lithuania on holiday. Although she kept the news from her family, it appears Slough confided in two friends about her real intentions.

Slough’s daughter, Megan Royal, a mother herself, received a text from one of her mother’s friends informing her that her mother was not in Lithuania but rather in Switzerland. Immediately, her daughter, the mother of two, contacted her father, who got in touch with Slough in Switzerland. After the conversation, it was understood that she would return home. However, the next day, Royal received a text originating from Pegasos, indicating her mother was dead and her ashes would be returned to her.

Under Swiss law, euthanasia is prohibited, but self-assisted suicide has been legal since 1942. The difference is all about semantics. A doctor is the active participant in euthanasia, while in self-assisted suicide, the doctor only provides the means.  Pegasos claims they only give the space and drugs for a person to administer the poison themselves.  Supposedly, the potential candidate for self-harm is thoroughly screened for soundness of mind before it ever takes place.

While Pegasos claims Slough fulfilled the prerequisites, her daughter questions the claim.  Organizations in Switzerland, like Petasos, which facilitate suicide, are non-profit but require a fee for their services.  It is believed Slough paid £15,000, an equivalent of $20,000 in U.S. dollars.  

The non-profit exterminators must evaluate the patient as having the power of judgement, constancy, autonomy, and soundness of mind concerning the wish to die. Supposedly, if one of those criteria is missing, the self-execution will not proceed. In communication with Slough’s daughter, Pegasos claims it received an email confirming her consent, but her daughter thinks Slough wrote it herself. Royal claims Pegasos did not do the due diligence before Slough administered the drugs to herself.  

Don’t be fooled by the outwardly compassionate verbiage plastered on Pegasos’ website. Similar to abortionists, they are in the business of killing. Twenty thousand dollars per death pays many salaries of those involved. Moreover, their mission is based upon a false and atheistic premise of a person having a right to take their own life. Not only is it untrue, but it also defies natural law by which humans strive for life and not death.  Pegasos further claims a person who wants to take his life is of sound mind. If anything is not of sound mind, it is someone who wants to contemplate suicide.

Pegasos is an organization offering a place and means for suicide. But why would someone pay that much when they can do it themselves without a cost? What Pegasos offers to disturbed people is a rationale and a quasi-moral way to kill themselves.  Taking a life in isolation can be an unpleasant thought, even in the mind of a depressed and wayward soul. By giving a potential suicidal individual a platform, loosely resembling a medical treatment, it can quiet and perhaps ease the conscience, making it easier to follow through with the unnatural action of self-annihilation.

Anytime we hear about suicide, the story is a sad one. But it is also unfortunate to know that some organizations prey upon the vulnerable under the guise of compassion.  The mission of all societies is to enable life and not to destroy it. All we can do now is pray that God has mercy on her soul and all those who propagate the means of death.