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

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

My daughter was 16 when she found my suicide note. I had written the same six words my father used to rehearse his own death ...

Illinois recently joined 11 other states in enacting a law that allows physician-­assisted suicide. I propose an additional tweak that would make dying more humane for those who might like to let go a ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law on Friday, legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill New Yorkers with less than six months to live, her ...

A federal district court judge upheld Delaware’s physician-assisted suicide law on Tuesday after a legal challenge from a patient rights advocacy group that argued the law discriminates against people ...

There were already 12 U.S. states that legalized assisted suicide, and Oregon, the first state to approve assisted suicide, had a dramatic spike in non-medicalized suicide afterwards that peaked at 41 ...

Across the U.S., more states are considering legalizing physician-assisted suicide — a trend that raises profound ethical and societal questions. Supporters claim it is a matter of personal freedom ...

Last night, the Vermont House approved a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide for individuals with terminal illness, according to a report by USA Today. The Patient Choice and Control ...

And that is the final part of a needed rebalancing for medically assisted death. The federal government should say clearly ...

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 ...

Jersey's decision to allow assisted dying has stirred powerful emotions across the island. In the shadow of Mont Orgueil Castle, which has overlooked Jersey's east coast for most of the 800 years it ...