Home » The Right to Die With Dignity. Opinions, Column The Right to Die With Dignity. By Madeline Hay. May 1, 2016 Updated June 4, 2020 at 6:10 pm. My great-grandfather lay in bed wracked with pain ...

Variously called “assisted suicide,” “right to die,” and “death with dignity,” such laws allow terminally ill people, while still of sound mind, to avoid prolonged agony and the loss ...

Proponents of assisted suicide, such as emeritus archbishop Desmond Tutu, argue that as people have the right to live with dignity, they also have the right to die with dignity.

On New Year’s Day, after months of suffering from debilitating headaches, I learned that I had brain cancer. I was 29 years old. I’d been married for just over a year. My husband and I were ...

As an older citizen, I am concerned about the lack of options and decisions we can make regarding the right to die with dignity. There are two choices we have in Pennsylvania: a do-not-resuscitate ...

The recent Supreme Court decision allowing individual states to intervene on the right-to-die issue has prompted concerns among the medical community, the general public and, particularly, families… ...

Anita Freeman watched her sister die of Stage 4 cancer. She now volunteers for Compassion & Choices. Updated October 7, 2014, 12:38 PM I watched my 66-year-old sister, Elizabeth Martin, die in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An important decision was made Friday in the death-with-dignity debate. The decision means that a woman with cancer will not be allowed to die with the help of a physician ...

This year, HB47 seeks to give Utahns the right to die with dignity, and we need to let our state representatives and senators know that the majority is in favor of passage. This is not the time for ...

In 2018, the Supreme Court held that the right to die with dignity was a fundamental right. Karnataka is the second state after Kerala to implement the Supreme Court order on the right to die with ...