Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twin sisters whose singing and dancing talents made them famous across Europe in the 1950s and '60s, died by joint assisted suicide on Monday, according to the German ...

An unusual story from Germany is making U.S. headlines - and sparking controversy. On Nov. 18, USA TODAY reported that Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twin entertainers who gained international fame ...

Physician-assisted suicide, also known as aid-in-dying or simply “assisted suicide,” is a decision made in collaboration with a medical professional to deliberately end one’s life. Most cases of ...

Rodgers said that as people learn more about how dangerous the policies surrounding legalizing assisted suicide are, they tend to oppose the practice. The Netherlands was the first country in the ...

Last year, California completed installation of a $220 million suicide barrier net on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to discourage people from jumping. The net was also intended to break the ...

This week the Patients Rights Action Fund, which works to “end the dangerous and discriminatory public policy of assisted suicide,” provided an update on current assisted suicide legislation in the ...

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