A 2018 attempt in Ohio to legalize a decision by a mentally competent, terminally ill patient to end their life by ...

While polling has shown that a majority of Americans favor the legality of the practice for terminally ill patients, people ...

Ontario family speaks out after son's controversial euthanasia under Canada's MAID laws, alleging system failed to protect ...

In 2022, Vafaeian had requested to die under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), but this was denied. Then, in December, Vafaeian, who was blind in one eye, diabetic and struggling with ...

The young woman's father, who says she has mental health issues, has since taken legal action to prevent her death ...

Legislative committees in both chambers of the Virginia Legislature chose not to advance bills to legalize physician assisted ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday she’ll sign a controversial doctor-assisted suicide bill – capping a years-long battle over making New York a state that allows terminally ill people to take ...

My August blog on suicide in cancer patients generated a considerable readership, and for that reason, and as a means of responding to that apparent interest, I decided to write now on a related ...

A committee of Canada’s parliament has called for the country’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme to be extended to “mature minors”. A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical ...

A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to New Jersey’s assisted dying law, ruling the state may continue limiting the option to New Jersey residents only. The decision was issued Friday, Dec ...