Kathy Hochul is facing a political tripwire as she weighs the future of a decade-old bill that would allow terminally ill people to obtain life-ending medication. Hochul’s administration has begun ...

Grube is national medical director for Compassion & Choices, an Oregon-based group that advocates for medical-aid-in-dying legislation.

(The Center Square) – Legislation that would make Illinois the 11th state in the country to allow medical-aid in dying is facing a stiff challenge. A measure being considered in Springfield ...

Slovenian lawmakers pass historic bill allowing medically-assisted suicide with 50 votes in favor, joining countries like Canada and Switzerland in legalizing death with dignity options.

If you are competent, you are in the very earliest stage of dementia. And if you are within six months of dying from dementia ...

It marks the first time a medical aid in dying bill has passed through one legislative chamber in Illinois since advocates unsuccessfully pushed for the practice to be legalized in the state last ...

If signed into law, New York would become the 12th state, along with the District of Columbia, to allow Medical Aid in Dying, legislation that would allow mentally competent, terminally ill ...

Advocates of the law say that many patients die without needing the medication, but that the dying take comfort in knowing they can avoid unbearable suffering, if it comes to that.

As session ends, NY lawmakers face major decisions. Will the Senate act on the Medical Aid in Dying Act after its historic Assembly passage? Plus, State Sen. James Skoufis explains his bill to ...

The state Senate voted 35 to 27, mostly along party lines, to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would allow patients given less than six months to live to request a fatal prescription from ...

(The Center Square) – Legislation that would make Illinois the 11th state in the country to allow medical-aid in dying is facing a stiff challenge.

(The Center Square) – Legislation that would make Illinois the 11th state in the country to allow medical-aid in dying is facing a stiff challenge.