A criminal case involving the assisted suicide of a 91-year-old woman is testing the boundaries of a Colorado state law allowing people to end their lives if they are terminally ill and follow ...

Assisted-suicide laws have divided the American population and sparked two lawsuits filed in the past month. · 0 sources ...

A 25-year-old Spanish woman was euthanized last month by medical personnel on her request and with the approval of authorities. She wasn’t terminally ill. Her case is under review by the U.S. State ...

Church leaders in New York and Illinois are pushing back against various states’ recently passed laws allowing doctors to help kill their patients.

The campaign to legalise assisted suicide relies on the promise that the drugs used to assist people to die will ensure a peaceful, dignified and controlled death for those that are terminally ill.

A commentary by Barbara Coombs Lee, head of Compassion & Choices, put forth some confusing and misleading information about a New York assisted suicide proposal and criticized a brain cancer patient ...

The dominant worry among opponents I spoke with: that patients will be not just assisted but encouraged to die.

“Protecting vulnerable patients and their doctors (not to mention avoiding friction with other states) justifies the residency requirement under any applicable test. The Constitution leaves moral ...

Patients in Canada are having their lives ended by assisted suicide on the same day that they submit their paperwork requesting it, according to a shocking new report. A total of 65 people died under ...