The Scottish Parliament has already turned down physician assisted suicide two times, but that has not stopped those for whom ...

The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying.

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

To Holyrood, where parliamentarians will tomorrow vote on Scotland’s assisted dying bill. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam ...

As MSPs prepare to vote on the Assisted Dying Bill, dementia expert Professor June Andrews and Liam McArthur MSP offer ...

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, proposed by Scottish Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur, will go before ...

The Deputy First Minister said she does not think ‘any amount of legal drafting can prevent people feeling pressured to die’.

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A group of psychologists and psychiatrists from the Netherlands and abroad have written to the Dutch society of psychiatrists NVVP saying the profession should have a decisive role in the decision to ...

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He had planned the day of his own death. A 49-year-old Frenchman decided that he was suffering too much from Parkinson's disease and chose to go to Belgium to get an assisted suicide. FRANCE 24's ...