A Canadian physician has been placed under supervision following concerns from medical regulators after he assessed a patient ...

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 ...

Michigan lawmakers are considering bills to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients.

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 ...

The argument can be traced back to the 1990s when Michigan physician Jack Kevorkian brought national attention to the issue ...

Despite opposition from advocacy groups and Catholic leaders, multiple states and countries advanced legislation in 2025 to expand access to physician-assisted suicide. Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed ...

Zebbie Geller was ready to die. The headstrong grandmother didn’t want anyone to talk her out of it. She had no interest in ...

As medical aid-in-dying laws continue to spread across the country, a New York-based physician and ethicist is warning about the dangerous ripple effects that can follow laws intended to ease ...

In just a year, physician-assisted suicide has gone from an extremely narrow legal option for the terminally ill to a far wider policy experiment in Canada, Europe and now New York. Lawmakers and ...