doctor-assisted suicide

They grapple over cases where pain might be alleviated by money, adequate housing or social connection, and express deep discomfort with ending lives of people whose deaths were avoidable.

New rules would reinstate most of the online prescribing rules for controlled drugs that were relaxed due to COVID-19. Critics say exceptions should be made for people in hospice care or those who qualify for medically assisted suicide.

For decades, the U.S. medical system has adhered to a legally recognized standard for death, one embraced by most states. Why is a uniform standard for the start of human life proving so elusive?

Canadian lawmakers have passed legislation to legalize physician-assisted death. It comes after an intense debate about who should be eligible for the option.

California Gov. Jerry Brown: "I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain."

After months of impassioned debate over the ethics of physician-assisted suicide, California will become the fifth state to allow people who are terminally ill to hasten death with lethal drugs.