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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors are notoriously bad at delivering that tough message: You are going to die.

But a new study shows a short training program might help them communicate better about terminal cancer, giving the patient emotional support and involving his or her significant others.

The work, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, assesses the first program ...

Author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's, on Tuesday defended making a film showing a man dying at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland.

Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain and anti-euthanasia campaigners complained that the programme "Choosing to Die", broadcast by the BBC on Monday, could prompt copycat suicides.

Pratchett told the BBC he made the film "because I ...

PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Sales of suicide kits, like the do-it-yourself asphyxiation hood used by a man to kill himself late last year, could soon be outlawed in the state of Oregon.

The state's House of Representative passed the bill on Monday to ban the products. It must now be considered in the state Senate, which passed similar legislation in ...

PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Sales of suicide kits, like the do-it-yourself asphyxiation hood used by an Oregon man to kill himself late last year, would be outlawed under a bill passed on Monday by the Oregon House of Representatives.

Sponsors say the bill would in no way impinge on a landmark 1997 state law legalizing physician-assisted suicides for terminally ill individuals ...

TROY, Mich (Reuters) - Friends and admirers of Jack Kevorkian -- known as "Dr. Death" for his prominent role in the U.S. debate on assisted suicide -- remembered him for his quieter, ascetic side, at a memorial service on Friday.

The doctor, who died June 3 at age 83 after being hospitalized for about two weeks, rose to notoriety in the 1990s ...

The American pathologist, Jack Kevorkian, dubbed "Doctor Death" for helping dozens of terminally-ill people to commit suicide, died Friday at the age of 83 in a Michigan hospital.

"It was peaceful, he didn't feel a thing," his attorney Mayer Morganroth said of Kevorkian, who had been hospitalized with kidney and heart problems.

The assisted-suicide advocate apparently died after a ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Voters in Zurich overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism" -- foreigners traveling to Switzerland to receive help ending their lives.

Only 15.5 percent of voters in the local referendum backed a ban on assisted suicide, while nearly 22 percent supported a ban on suicide tourism, final results showed. About 200 people commit ...

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A 91-year-old California woman selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits for $60 apiece says business is booming since a depressed but otherwise healthy young man used her product to kill himself in Oregon.

Notoriety surrounding Sharlotte Hydorn's home-based mail order operation near San Diego and the December suicide of one of her customers, Nicholas Klonoski, 29, has also ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Sean Manning was about to turn 27 when his mother collapsed with a heart attack and then was diagnosed with cancer, the start of a 13-month hospital odyssey that ended in her death aged just short of 60.

An only child, Sean spent most of that time at her bedside in Ohio, shepherding her through a medical ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mother who drowned herself and three of her children by intentionally driving her minivan into the Hudson River was buried separately from her children on Thursday after their father intervened in plans to inter them together.

A large crowd of mourners followed a single white casket into the First Baptist Church in Spring Valley, New York ...