April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying ...

Canada’s MAID law, which expanded the right to die to people without a terminal illness, raises ethical and medical dilemmas. By Katie Engelhart In 2023, one out of 20 Canadians who died received a ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Disability rights groups launched a Charter challenge Wednesday against Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) provisions, seeking a court declaration that portions of the Canada Criminal Code ...

The Canadian Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katie Engelhart wrote The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die. In this conversation with Reason's Kevin Alexander, Engelhart discusses why people ...

For years, advocates of legalizing physician-assisted suicide have recited a comforting refrain: Don’t worry, they assure skeptics worried about the dangers of allowing doctors to prescribe lethal ...

Lisa Jackson (second from the left) led the gathering of Dignity in Dying volunteers in Worthing [Dignity in Dying] Demonstrations have taken place to thank MPs and call on the House of Lords to ...

Karandeep Sonu Gaind is Chief of Psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a Professor and Governor at the University of Toronto. He was formerly Chief of Psychiatry and physician chair of ...

MAiD needs safeguards for the vulnerable: Ontario coroner’s reports show more marginalized people receiving Track 2 MAiD, which provides assisted death for those with disability but who are not dying.

The Swiss lawyer who turned assisted death into a political and moral battleground has ended his own life at one of his clinics.