Within a single week, the governors of Illinois and New York both announced their support for physician-assisted suicide ...

Canada is engaged in an important, and sometimes frightening, debate about the right to life at the opposite end of the life spectrum from the debate going on here in the U.S. They are debating the ...

Two critical care physicians served as expert witnesses in the trial of William Husel, DO, the physician accused of murdering 14 patients with high doses of fentanyl, who was ultimately found not ...

Several states have begun to consider legislation that would legalize active voluntary euthanasia. To address some of the ethical issues raised by such legislation, the Center for Applied Ethics ...

TORONTO (AP) — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed ...

Euthanasia, often referred to as “mercy killing,” is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. The legality of euthanasia varies across the globe, with a small number ...

In one of the last photographs my family took of my grandmother, she looks as if she's been in a fistfight. Jean Bass Tinsley is lying in a hospital bed in Athens, Georgia, wearing a turquoise ...

So you’re at a party, and someone says something ignorant. And while you know that they’re in the wrong, and that you could totally engage them and win if you were a bit more prepared, your words ...

“ASSISTED dying” is a euphemism. It has no meaning in law but it means supplying lethal drugs to people who are terminally ill with the purpose of helping them to commit suicide. This is opposed in ...

Last April, the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing launched The National Palliative Care Strategy 2025-2035. The main objective of the strategy is to continue strengthening access to palliative ...