Assisted Suicide

Amid existing health care disparities, assisted suicide, although ostensibly voluntary, imperils the ill and disabled.

The state's assembly has voted to legalize medical assisted dying for the terminally ill, paving the way for it to become the 10th state to allow the practice.

For nearly 30 years, the United States has been grappling with states' decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide.

Senate Bill 239 argues that a "mentally capable adult patient should have the right to self-determination concerning his or her health care decisions."

Instead of pushing assisted suicide legislation, Americans should provide those with a terminal diagnosis the means to embrace their disabilities.

Suspect Dave Meyer said he had watched his wife suffer with terrible nerve damage and back pain for years.

The "fiercely independent" mom says she wants to die on her own terms, but is currently restricted by law from doing so.

Victor Escobar will be the first Colombian suffering from incurable pain to die from euthanasia while not terminally ill.

Fieger has represented families in cases involving the Columbine school shooting and the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.

An assisted suicide machine's portability gives users the option of choosing where they spend their final moments.

Alta Fixsler's death was a brutal tragedy caused by ableist, utilitarian assumptions about a young girl's "quality of life" by non-disabled people.

The pope's comments come weeks after campaigners in Italy launched a petition to reverse a law banning assisted suicide, making the country the latest in Europe to move toward legalizing the act.

Assisted suicide is a dangerous public policy that threatens Latinos, people with disabilities, our elders and the most vulnerable in society.

A friend of the duo said she believes the victim "begged" to be killed: "I don't believe there was any malice."

Under laws like New Mexico's, our broken, for-profit health system offers some patients suicide prevention, and others suicide help.

After asking a state court to declare that she could not be sanctioned for attempting to help her patient end his life, Dr. Barbara Morris was dismissed from her position.

"Allowing terminally ill and dying residents the dignity to make end-of-life decisions according to their own consciences is the right thing to do," New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said.

Earlier this month, Hawaii became the sixth state in the U.S. to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

The death pod is the vision of euthanasia activist Dr. Philip Nitschke and Dutch engineer Alexander Bannink.

Dr. Philip Nitschke considers himself the Elon Musk of assisted suicide, and his latest death machine, the Sarco, is his Tesla.

California's right-to-die law, enacted June 2016, remains the subject of much debate.

Can words kill? And who else might find the criminal justice system bearing down on them now because of words less morally bankrupt than Michelle Carter's?

Legal experts have expressed concern about the future implications of Friday's involuntary manslaughter guilty verdict for Michelle Carter.

Michelle Carter was accused of involuntary manslaughter for sending text messages urging her boyfriend to kill himself.

The state joins Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont and Montana in permitting people to assist in the death of another, under certain circumstances.

Canadian government has until June 6 to come up with a law to comply with a ban on the practice being overturned by the country's top court.

An 18-year-old in Massachusetts faces involuntary manslaughter charge after long-distance boyfriend killed himself.

Governor Brown should sign California's Proposed Physician Assisted Suicide Bill.

Patients must request the drugs three times and must sign a form two days before taking the terminal pills.

A new study reveals how many Dutch physicians would consider helping people die to end their nonphysical suffering, such as psychiatric diseases, dementia or being "tired of living."