assisted suicide

After 66 years of marriage, Charlie and Francie Emerick chose to take advantage of Oregon’s Death With Dignity Law. Last April, with physician assistance, the couple took lethal doses together to end their own lives.

Canadians, or at least Canadian media elites, seem intent on creating a real-life version of what novelist P.D. James, in her novel “The Children of Men,” called “quietus”: that is, state-sanctioned mass suicide of the those deemed to be a burden to the rest of society.

Oregon man wants assisted-living facility to stop feeding his wife so she can die.

Faced with doctors’ growing resistance to assisted suicide, some Canadian advocates are asking, “What if we just pay them more?”

John Stonestreet: We’ve talked recently about who should make life and death decisions when it comes to medical care.

A Canadian study published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine says patients requesting euthanasia aren’t necessarily in physical pain—they’re in “existential distress.”

A funny thing happened on the way to our supposed brave new world of assisted suicide. I’ll tell you about it, next on BreakPoint.

If “assisted death” is such a good thing, why are so many Canadian doctors having second thoughts?

Some physicians who kill a patient once find they don’t ever want to do it again.

Researchers claim country’s healthcare system could save millions if more sick people chose suicide.