Over the last 25 years, the rights of terminally ill patients to determine how they die have expanded considerably,” writes ...

Filmmaker Reid Davenport discusses the challenges behind his new doc and shares his fears after cuts to publicly funded media ...

Canada continues to assess whether to further open eligibility to medical assistance in dying (MAID), an ongoing debate that ...

Illinois is poised to become the 12th U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients after the ...

Gov. Pritzker must veto SB 1950 and allow medical doctors to continue their roles as protectors and healers of their patients ...

A bill has passed both Illinois chambers that would allow doctors to prescribe aid-in-dying medication to people who have a ...

In the Netherlands, Zoraya ter Beek, a 28-year-old woman with depression, autism and a personality disorder, shared with The Free Press her plans to pursue euthanasia because she was “tired of living.

A controversial bill allowing terminally ill adults to choose when they want to die is heading to the Illinois governor's desk.

Some New York lawmakers and advocates are calling for Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the "Medical Aid In Dying" bill, also known ...

Eleven states and the District of Columbia provide the option under what are known as medically assisted death or MAID laws. New York has passed one that is awaiting the governor’s signature.

A bill heading to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk could allow anyone dying of a terminal illness within six months to have the option ...