While polling has shown that a majority of Americans favor the legality of the practice for terminally ill patients, people are more split on the morality.

There were already 12 U.S. states that legalized assisted suicide, and Oregon, the first state to approve assisted suicide, had a dramatic spike in non-medicalized suicide afterwards that peaked at 41 ...

The Canadian Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katie Engelhart wrote The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die. In this conversation with Reason's Kevin Alexander, Engelhart discusses why people ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an amended version of bill making NY the 13th state to legalize lethal pills for terminally ill patients who request them.

The Connecticut legislature's failure to pass an 'aid-in-dying' bill means residents won't be subjected to the same horrors seen elsewhere.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Medically assisted death will soon become legal in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. In an opinion piece for the Times Union, the governor said she plans to sign the ...

In 2022, Vafaeian had requested to die under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), but this was denied. Then, in December, Vafaeian, who was blind in one eye, diabetic and struggling with ...

A deeply personal and politically charged debate erupted in New York after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law, giving terminally ill adults the option to seek medication to ...

Patients in Canada are having their lives ended by assisted suicide on the same day that they submit their paperwork ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Friday. Legalized medically assisted suicide ...

Assisted dying services could be available on the Welsh NHS in future after politicians vote to back legislation.