
Jerry Brown Signs CA Right-To-Die Bill: Suicide Would be a ‘Comfort’
California became the fifth state to enact right-to-die legislation when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act into law on Monday.

California became the fifth state to enact right-to-die legislation when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act into law on Monday.

Assisted suicide has been resurrected and cleared its next to last hurdle through California’s State Senate Friday with Governor Jerry Brown the last opportunity for opponents to kill the bill.

Wednesday California’s State Assembly resurrected from the dead and passed an assisted suicide bill. It will now pass to the State Senate, which has previously passed such legislation.

The head of the Church of England has said the passage of the Assisted Dying Bill will make Britain into a country where life was no longer “worth protecting”. The Most Reverend Justin Welby, said the change in law if

The Anglican Bishop of Worcester has urged MPs to vote against assisted suicide, warning it will inevitably lead to terminally ill people feeling pressured to kill themselves. The Right Rev John Inge said that his wife’s death from cancer last

A prominent right-to-die group was ordered Monday to pay nearly $33,000 to the family of a Minnesota woman it helped commit suicide.

A review of the evidence on assisted dying has found “common patterns” indicating that the practice becomes more widespread and routine where introduced. The report lends credence to fears that introducing legislation to allow for assisted dying in some instances

The SNP is escalating its efforts to disrupt governance in England and irk the Tories. Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the party will continue interfering in English only laws, and an SNP MP said their next target is the English “assisted suicide”

Assisted suicide legislation in California is in danger of dying itself, as a vote in the State Assembly Health Committee slated for Tuesday was delayed another two weeks.

A highly controversial California State Senate bill that would allow doctors to provide lethal, life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients with less than six months to live passed in a 23-14 vote on Thursday.

For the third consecutive year, a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to commit suicide with the help of a physician failed to make it out of the state’s Judiciary Committee.

An assisted suicide bill which would allow physicians in California to administer lethal drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients to accelerate their deaths, passed the first of two state Senate committee panels on Wednesday. The hearing was an emotional one, and legislators heard starkly opposing views.

It isn’t politically correct to talk about taking a life by aborting a baby or committing assisted suicide.

Inspired by the case of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old California woman terminally ill with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to commit suicide legally, two California lawmakers have introduced a bill to permit assisted suicide.