Euthanasia represents one of the oldest issues in medical ethics. It is forbidden in the original Hippocratic Oath, and has consistently been opposed by most religious traditions since antiquity – ...

MANHATTAN — A disability rights organization praised United Nations human rights experts for condemning voluntary euthanasia on the basis of disability. On Monday, three UN human rights experts issued ...

VOLUNTARY euthanasia advocate Andew Denton has hit out at a “fear campaign” against assisted dying and other campaigners were left “gutted” after the narrow defeat of SA laws. Port Pirie woman Kylie ...

Queensland state Deputy Premier Steven Miles, center, waves to the public gallery after the vote for the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill at Queensland Parliament in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Sept.

A smoking revolver, one dead woman and a confession from the very man who committed the act — the evidence for murder is all there in the details of Arizona man George Sanders’ “mercy killing” of his ...

Illinois has become the 12th US state to legalise medically assisted death for terminally ill adults. Known as “Deb’s Law,” ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When it comes to legislating voluntary euthanasia in Australia, success is rare and short lived. The Tasmanian Voluntary ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Voluntary euthanasia became legal in an Australian state on Wednesday more than 20 years after the country repealed the world’s first mercy-killing law for the terminally ...

Terminally ill Australians will be able to end their lives with the help of a doctor after the state of Victoria passed historic assisted dying legislation. Under the new law — a first for Australia — ...

Italy could hold a referendum on voluntary euthanasia after a petition gained over 750,000 signatures. "Just as I have the right to treatment, I have the right to end my suffering," a spinal-injury ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Voluntary euthanasia became legal in a fifth Australian state on Thursday, more than 20 years after the country repealed the world’s first mercy killing law for the ...

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