TORONTO — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under ...

This week New Zealand’s parliamentarians will vote on the third reading of the End of Life Choice Bill. Much public discussion on the merits of euthanasia has centred around the role of the medical ...

For instance, doctors may stop artificial feeding, fluids, or other lifesustaining interventions when they are no longer beneficial. The aim is not to actively end life, but to stop treatments that ...