Police accused Ellen Gilland, 76, of shooting her terminally ill husband Jerry, 77, in an AdventHealth hospital in Daytona Beach last month, igniting a discussion about legal euthanasia. Gilland, a ...

A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the ...

Very few people could have looked upon Chantal Sébire at the end of her life and not understood why the former schoolteacher wished to end it. Left horribly disfigured and in frequent torment from ...

TORONTO -- A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under ...

TORONTO — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year ...

TORONTO — Canada has arguably the world's most permissive system of euthanasia — the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request. Canada ...

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Euthanasia at patient’s request is legal in cases of unbearable suffering in the Netherlands The Netherlands Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case Tuesday that doctors may legally euthanize patients ...

Doctors privately debate euthanasia cases When euthanasia was legalized, doctors and nurse practitioners set up email discussion groups as confidential forums to discuss potentially troubling cases, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ highest court ruled Tuesday that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive.