The assisted-suicide movement sheds its fig leaf.

Following Dr. Jack Kevorkian's release from prison this month, assisted-suicide activists have taken to America's airwaves and oped pages to caution us against getting the wrong idea about the right to die.

A medical resident we called her "Dr. Death" at the Intensive Care Unit at Long Island's North Shore Hospital chased us down the hallway.

The right-to-die movement abandons pretense.

There is no solution to the problem of debility and death, but there are better and worse ways of thinking about them.

The Netherlands follows in Germany's footsteps.

The news about Monday's 6-3 assisted suicide ruling is not as bad as euthanasia opponents might have feared.

When little Chanou was born in 2000 with a rare and painful illness that leads to abnormal bone development, doctors gave the Dutch infant less than three years to live. As it turns out, she only had seven months.

The Groningen protocol in the Holland seeks to create the legal framework to actively end the lives of newborns suffering from incurable diseases or extreme deformities.

Many people have told me that they don't think they could "stand to live" if they needed a wheelchair like me. That's why I felt a little queasy about going to see Million Dollar Baby. But helping plan the first disability protest of the movie, in Chicago, I had a duty to see it.