IT SEEMS inconceivable that in a happier world of the future no provision should be made for putting out of their misery persons suffering from an excessively painful and incurable disease. We shall ...

Canada is engaged in an important, and sometimes frightening, debate about the right to life at the opposite end of the life spectrum from the debate going on here in the U.S. They are debating the ...

Several states have begun to consider legislation that would legalize active voluntary euthanasia. To address some of the ethical issues raised by such legislation, the Center for Applied Ethics ...

MADRID (AP) — Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in ...

The fact that more people are choosing to die by euthanasia is primarily due to changes in society and people’s perception of ...

GHENT, Belgium — After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that her judgment was ...

Schadenberg noted that the federal government in its implementation of MAID went further than the Supreme Court’s Carter decision required. Assisted suicide has grown in popularity in Canada since its ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 11, 2026) allowed the withdrawal of life support to 32-year-old Harish Rana. Mr. Rana had sustained severe head injuries and 100% quadriplegic disability after a ...

So you’re at a party, and someone says something ignorant. And while you know that they’re in the wrong, and that you could totally engage them and win if you were a bit more prepared, your words ...

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of India has once again brought the complex and emotionally charged topic of euthanasia into public discussion. The court allowed passive euthanasia for ...