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A ministerial committee has approved a bill which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to Israeli citizens with less than six months to live....

Legal assisted suicide deaths in Washington state rose by 43% in 2013, according to an official report. Legal assisted suicide deaths in Washington state rose...

News that a Catholic deacon may have euthanased 40 patients has reset the benchmark for weirdness. Reporting weird tales about Belgian euthanasia is a crowded...

Quebec has become the first Canadian province to legalise euthanasia. Bill 52 easily passed in the National Assembly by a vote of 94 to 22....

The governing Liberal Party and the other three major parties have taken the unusual step of backing a quick vote on the bill in the...

The number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium in 2013 rose by 26.8% over the previous year. Five people died of euthanasia every day. The...

News that the chairman of the Belgian government’s euthanasia control commission has organised a study tour of Auschwitz has outraged a leading Jewish organisation. News...

It is unethical for American physicians to participate in executions, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It is unethical...

A shortage of a lethal drug is stopping both executions and assisted suicide in the United States. A shortage of a lethal drug is stopping...

A car crash victim who doctors thought had no chance of survival has made an amazing recovery. In 2011 Sam Schmid was involved in a...

At 80, a former gay activist in Canada wants to choose "rational suicide" While legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide are popularly regarded as remedies for...

A botched execution in Oklahoma on Tuesday has revived the debate over the death penalty in the United States A botched execution in Oklahoma on...