Experimental and unpredictable drug combinations are being used, some of which have complications.

It would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to competent adults expected to live less than six months.

A philosophy professor argues that the proposed assisted suicide bill contains dangerous loopholes for expansion.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "We may seem a long way from legalizing physician-assisted ...

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

There is much debate around the world regarding physician-assisted dying legislation — often called “Death with Dignity” — ...

Canadian actress Claire Brosseau is in so much pain from “unbearable,” long-term mental illness that she has petitioned a court to grant emergency permission for medically assisted suicide to end her ...

EDITORIAL: Experts stress that those who seek to end their lives this way generally do so because they feel abandoned by other human beings, not because of their illnesses. A woman holds the hand of ...