Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person casts their ballot at a polling station during a referendum vote on a law that proposes legalizing assisted dying for ...

Ron Curtis, an English professor in Montreal, lived for 40 years with a degenerative spinal disease, in what he called the “black hole” of chronic pain. On a July day in 2022, Mr. Curtis, 64, ate a ...