 In 2011 Nugent's wife Anne Holliday died of cancer, after making plans to take her own life if she felt that she needed to.In 2012, Nugent, Tom Curran and Máirín de Burca founded Right To Die Ireland, a campaign group to legalise assisted suicide in Ireland.Tom Curran is the co-ordinator of Exit International Ireland, and Máirín De Burca is a former secretary of Official Sinn Féin.