Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed legislation allowing terminally ill adults to seek medical aid-in-dying medication, making ...

“It surely is a long agonising wait before a physician allows euthanasia, because there is always something left to try to make your suffering more bearable. Recommendations from two other physicians ...

In the late 1960s, there was a mass deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care in the United States. Hundreds of psychiatric hospitals (so-called “asylums”) were closed in the name of freedom and ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs physician-assisted suicide law for terminally ill patients, sparking outrage from religious ...

CHICAGO Today, Governor Pritzker signed the Medical Aid in Dying bill (SB 1950), a law that will provide qualified terminally ill patients with the option ...

New strategies are needed to provide safe and supportive options for when nursing home residents with serious mental illness are eventually discharged back into the community, new research finds.

Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty? “I cannot get through a day,” Paula had said at an assessment for ...

Grand Junction retiree Linda Stout didn’t just listen when friends shared sad stories about their adult children’s struggles with mental illness. She spent the next two years making a documentary film ...

But there have been many cases of people with mental disorders who additionally were terminally ill, for example due to cancer, who met the C-14 criteria and received MAiD after being found competent ...