Jersey's parliament, the States Assembly, has just passed its assisted dying bill after a final debate. This will allow ...

The votes in Jersey and Cardiff mean there are now five parliaments across the British Isles that have weighed in on the ...

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

A committee is set to start work next month on whether assisted dying should be extended to those suffering exclusively from ...

Patients in Canada are having their lives ended by assisted suicide on the same day that they submit their paperwork requesting it, according to a shocking new report. A total of 65 people died under ...

Non-NHS providers may be able to offer assisted dying services in Wales even if the Senedd rejects the landmark legislation, the Welsh health secretary has said. On Tuesday Senedd politicians will ...

Jacques Poissant’s suffering stopped the day he asked his daughter if it would be “cowardly to ask to be helped to die”.The retired Canadian ...

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...

Claire Brosseau, 49, battles decades of mental illness and is suing the Canadian government for access to assisted dying. Advocates say chronic psychiatric suffering can be as unbearable as physical ...

Jersey’s States Assembly has approved an Assisted Dying Law allowing terminally ill, mentally competent residents with limited life expectancy to seek medical help to end their lives. The move comes ...

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 ...