Under existing laws assisted dying is currently banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and carries a maximum sentence ...

Tomorrow, MPs will vote on the second reading of Kim Leadbeater’s Private Members Bill which is titled The Terminally Ill Adults (End of ...

She works in a hospital and really wants people to have assisted dying as an option. My other daughter Izzy is fully supportive of that too. I've done a straw poll of friends. One is absolutely ...

If this were not enough, the Bill actually states that a doctor could suggest a patient considers an assisted death. This crosses a Rubicon in medicine. We know the implicit trust someone has in a ...

“My mum had to lie to me about taking her own life, in order to safeguard me from prosecution,” he said. “So I couldn’t be ...

"There was nothing to be gained by Ann being alive in those last four days. She wanted to be out of it, and it was traumatic, ...

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its ...

Former Prime Minister Lord David Cameron has backed moves to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults. In an op-ed ...

Any move to legalise assisted dying in Northern Ireland would have to be passed by politicians in the devolved Assembly at Stormont. In May, Jersey’s parliament voted in favour of drawing up laws to ...

A Canadian coroner has recorded 428 cases of malpractice by assisted dying physicians since 2018. Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief ...

Lord David Cameron had previously opposed moves to legalise assisted dying - but has now come out in support for the idea ...