Advocates of "medical aid in dying" see Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee as a threat.

Andrew Barclay, 65, from Folkestone in Kent, died after taking a lethal dose of drugs in an apartment near Zurich, having travelled to Switzerland with his wife Sandra.

The Dutch government intends to draft a law that would legalise assisted suicide for people who feel they have ‘completed life’ but who are not necessarily terminally ill.

Sir Richard Thompson, pictured, has urged his fellow medics to consider advocating a ‘neutral’ stance on assisted dying at the British Medical Association’s meeting in Belfast next week.

As Robert Hugh Benson's apocalyptic novel Lord of the World moves toward its shocking conclusion, a naïve young woman who has placed simple-minded faith in the utter goodness of the Antichrist figure at the center of the story awakens to the fact that …

After gay marriage, brace yourself for assisted suicide—it's next on the agenda. The June 27 cover of The Economist, an influential national publication, heralded "The Right to Die: Why Assisted Suicide Should be Legal." Currently there is a bill …

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has warned doctors and ethicists on several hot-button social issues, attacking abortion, embryonic stem cell research and euthanasia as “playing with life” and “a sin against God.” In a strongly worded address that …

PORTLAND, Ore. —. A Vatican official is criticizing cancer patient Brittany Maynard's decision to end her life. The 29-year-old Maynard died on Saturday using an Oregon law that lets terminally ill people use lethal …

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's top bioethics official on Tuesday called "reprehensible" the assisted suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated she wanted to die with dignity.

The Vatican's top bioethics official calls "reprehensible" the suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated she wanted to die with dignity.