What is voluntary euthanasia? Learn its meaning, types, safeguards and how euthanasia differs from voluntary assisted dying ...

Once euthanasia starts, it picks up steam year by year by year as hastened death becomes normalized. For too long, assisted suicide has been viewed by the public with little skepticism and repeatedly ...

This page sets out the arguments in favour of allowing euthanasia in certain cases. Should we accept that euthanasia happens and try to regulate it safely? Do people have the right to arrange their ...

After more than 20 years of living with devastating injuries from an acid attack, a Colombian woman says she wants to undergo ...

GHENT, Belgium — After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that her judgment was ...

Maria Consuelo Cordoba, a Colombian acid attack survivor, requests euthanasia after 26 years of suffering and over 80 ...

Euthanasia appears in the news usually as a result of a legal or ethical controversy surrounding the legality or illegality of its application. Most recently, though, it's getting attention again due ...

A court in The Hague ruled on Thursday that the public prosecution service (OM) must hand over the names the 14 prominent ...

The French move raises an old question that goes far beyond France: should a person have the right to decide when and how ...

From October through July 31, ACS took in 3,174 animals and recorded 557 euthanasias mainly for medial and behavioral reasons. None were listed as space-related.