The Life-Sustaining Treatment Act was implemented in 2018. Until then, South Korea effectively lacked legislation governing life-sustaining medical care. The only precedent was the 1997 "Boramae ...

Illinois now faces an important choice with its proposed death with dignity legislation: whether to extend to terminally ill adults the right to decide, in consultation with medical professionals, how ...

Credit: Getty Images As of 2025, MAID is authorized in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine, New Mexico, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, ...

For hospice nurse Trish Carling, holding a dying patient's hand through the dark hours of the night was a privilege to share. The 66-year-old has just retired after 36 years working in palliative care ...

Barriers to terminally ill patients accessing assisting dying are poised to be pulled down under a law shake-up, honouring ...

The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; ...

Emergency department (ED) wait times are rising nationwide — the median is now 2 hours and 40 minutes, and in some hospitals, it stretches to 5.5 hours. For patients and their families in crisis, that ...

Patients are dying needlessly whilst the health board and Welsh Government make things worse as they bury their heads in the sand." ...