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 ...

Spanish Woman, 25, Dies by Legal Euthanasia in Case That Drew National Spotlight MADRID (AP) — Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her ...

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 ...

GHENT, Belgium — After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that her judgment was ...

Schadenberg noted that the federal government in its implementation of MAID went further than the Supreme Court’s Carter decision required. Assisted suicide has grown in popularity in Canada since its ...

Daniel Eduardo Ostropolsky has been staring into the abyss for years. At first he noticed the changes in his body gradually, week by week: a sudden cramp, weakness in his right hand or some slowness ...

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 ...

MADRID (AP) — Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in ...

Is euthanasia or assisted suicide a solution we should consider, especially in light of the recent news that elderly suicides in Singapore have reached an all-time high last year? Some have indeed ...