Legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a doctor was passed by the Illinois House and now heads to the Senate.

The plan would let those with less than six months to live end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase Cupich ...

A bill that would legally allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients has stalled in the ...

Aid-in-dying legislation remains at the Illinois Statehouse after it failed to clear the Illinois Senate before legislators ...

Under the proposed Illinois legislation, death certificates would show the terminal illness as the cause of death, not ...

Under Senate Bill 1950, doctors would be allowed to prescribe terminally ill patients a lethal dose of medication that they ...

A state committee voted to push forward a bill that would let terminally ill patients request life-ending medication.

According to a study conducted by Compassion and Choices alongside WebMD, 58% of Illinois physicians supported legalized ...

Scholars weigh in on efforts in Illinois and other states to pass assisted suicide legislation following Canada's lead.

The bill would legalize the use of prescription drugs that aid in dying, what’s commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide.

As the spring legislative session winds down in Illinois, sponsors of assisted suicide legislation are trying get passage by ...