In the Netherlands, Zoraya ter Beek, a 28-year-old woman with depression, autism and a personality disorder, shared with The ...

Almost 300 proposed amendments are due to be debated and voted on by the Health Committee over several sessions.

MSPs are to begin scrutinising almost 300 proposed amendments to landmark assisted dying legislation. Key amendments under ...

Four meetings of the committee have been set aside to vote on the amendments, of which there are 287 in total. McArthur’s own ...

A bill has passed both Illinois chambers that would allow doctors to prescribe aid-in-dying medication to people who have a ...

The Illinois General Assembly has passed a bill allowing medically assisted death for terminally ill patients, which is now ...

Susan Carter’s bill to allow NSW aged care providers to restrict or deny access to voluntary assisted dying is discrimination at its very worst.

Wes Streeting has repeatedly emphasised that the budget for the assisted dying service – the Bill’s name for the proposed suicide unit – would come out of the NHS budget, meaning other services would ...

Lanie is an ACT politics and health reporter at The Canberra Times. She previously worked as City Reporter and was a trainee for the masthead. You can contact her at [email protected] ...

The ACT's Voluntary Assisted Dying scheme begins this week. It will allow people who qualify to have some degree of choice, about when they die.

Eleven states and the District of Columbia provide the option under what are known as medically assisted death or MAID laws. New York has passed one that is awaiting the governor’s signature.

The bill now goes to Gov. JB Pritzker. The governor’s office did not return a request for comment about whether Pritzker backs the legislation.