Assisted dying can take two forms. Assisted suicide, or physician-assisted death, is when a "physician provid[es] a patient who requests aid-in-dying …
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The assisted dying debate
The practice is illegal in most of the world, but a handful of countries have opted to allow it, and others are discussing its legalisation.
Demonstrations calling for the decriminalisation of assisted dying are to take place in central London today to coincide with a debate among MPs in …
The former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt died by euthanasia last week, hand in hand with his wife Eugenie. They were both 93. Both had been in …
The Crown Prosecution Service has opened the door to legalising "mercy killings" of the terminally ill in the UK by introducing guidelines on when …
Canada has one of the most liberal assisted suicide laws in the world — but is it too liberal? Officials in the national government have announced …
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