New York earlier this month became the 14th state with an aid-in-dying law on the books, thanks to a trend that is ushering in a new era for patient rights — and important ethical and legal questions ...

Columbia physician warns medical assistance in dying laws spreading across the United States could create a slippery slope ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Rep. Adrielle Camuel has filed a bill in Frankfort that would allow terminally ill patients — with six or fewer months to ...

Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...

A patient found dying on the floor of her room at Mission Hospital led to a previously unreported citation of “immediate jeopardy” in 2021, two years after Asheville’s flagship hospital was acquired ...

You would hope for your dying days to be full of calm and care. But our research with people who are dying shows this is far from the reality for many people. Instead, financial stress plays a huge ...

Palliative care physician, Dr. Mapa, and ALS researcher, Dr. Leitner, comment on the life and death for patients with ALS as well as future researchers.

Separate bills to let terminally ill people end their life are being considered at Westminster and in Scotland.

My grandmother's death was painful and inhumane. A Kentucky House bill would give terminally ill patients the right to end their own suffering.