It's more than a year since MPs first backed the proposed legislation but it still needs to be approved by peers.

Despite opposition from Catholic leaders, multiple states and countries advanced legislation in 2025 to expand access to ...

Medically assisted suicide remains a contentious topic, but it will soon be allowed in 13 states and District of Columbia.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who has led the push to legalise assisted dying, said peers who oppose the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill were trying to sabotage it ...

Healthcare providers who don’t comply are subject to civil and criminal sanctions.

The Canadian Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katie Engelhart wrote The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die. In this conversation with Reason's Kevin Alexander, Engelhart discusses why people ...

MPs have voted in favour of assisted dying by 330 to 275, in a landmark moment in Parliament, reflecting a profound shift in the issue in England and Wales. MPs debated – which would give people in ...

Amendments to the assisted dying bill which require a GP to have known a terminally ill person for two years are set to be ...

Illinois' "Deb's Law," permitting medically assisted dying for terminally ill patients, is signed and will take effect in 2026.

One crucial issue that has historically received little attention within the assisted dying (AD) debate in the UK is what ...

Jessica Young is affiliated with YesForCompassion.org.nz, which shares dying people’s reasons for wanting choice and aims to educate the public by providing trustworthy, evidence-based information on ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When New Zealanders go to ...