Lately, we have witnessed a pernicious cultural trend toward the rebranding of legalized euthanasia as a gift rather than a menace to societys most vulnerable citizens.

Approval for euthanasia muffles our proper emotional response to a person's passing.

An extraordinary public exchange of letters between over the past six months has illuminated in a very personal way the profound issues posed by death and all that leads to it.

Oregon has become the model for how assisted suicide is supposed to work. But it actually demonstrates that the Oregon Trail is a dangerous path.

Paralysed after being attacked by neo-Nazis, Noel Martin is planning a trip to Switzerland to commit suicide. Here, disabled broadcaster Liz Carr, who met Noel for a BBC Radio 5 Live report, writes an open letter urging him to think again.

As a response to the challenge of euthanasia, Dr. Rene Leiva explains how he helps patients who suffer from "depression of the soul".

Zach Dunlap doesn't remember the four-wheeler crash that landed him on life support in a Texas hospital last fall. But he does remember hearing a doctor pronounce him dead.

This week, the first International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is being held in Toronto.

After ten years and 300 deaths, what is there to learn from America's assisted suicide frontier?

As his days were racing to an early end, my father had to discuss with his doctors all the choices available for treatment.