A Canadian physician has been placed under supervision following concerns from medical regulators after he assessed a patient ...

Pat Ames is 71 and healthy, and expects to stay that way for years to come. But she’s put a lot of thought into how she wants to die — and when: “If I can’t care for myself,” the Idaho resident said, ...

Accountability for abuse is anathema to state suicide protocols.

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 ...

James Valentine, a popular ABC radio and television host for more than 30 years and a rock musician, has died. He was 64. Valentine died by assisted suicide at home two years after he was diagnosed ...

In just a year, physician-assisted suicide has gone from an extremely narrow legal option for the terminally ill to a far wider policy experiment in Canada, Europe and now New York. Lawmakers and ...

Since then, efforts to legalize assisted suicide in Connecticut have failed—even though nearby states like New York and Illinois recently legalized assisted suicide—because of Connecticut’s strategy ...

Web searches on assisted suicide yield strange results. Articles on states that have enacted “death with dignity” laws show how they use a common language of compassion and choice. Underneath are ...

Laws that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients are being considered once again in Michigan.