Western Europe - End of Life Decisions

UK study: Nonreligious doctors twice as likely to hasten death of terminally ill patientsDoctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very ...

Britain leads the world in the quality of care it provides for the dying, leaving many developed nations lagging a long way behind, according to a study released Wednesday. State support for end-of-life care and an effective network of hospices put Britain ...

In a story June 25 about a right-to-die case, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Germany's top criminal court legalized assisted suicide. The court didn't rule on the issue of assisted suicide. The case involved a woman in a vegetative coma who ...

KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Terminally ill patients on life support should have the right to die if they want to, Germany's highest civil court said on Friday in a landmark ruling on assisted suicide. After years of debate in Germany over euthanasia, ...

British doctors face being banned from practising if they fail to respect the wishes of terminally ill patients who want to die by refusing treatment, a newspaper reported Thursday. Citing new guidelines from doctors' regulator the General Medical Council, the Daily Telegraph ...

Dozens of urns with human ashes found in Lake Zurich, ties to assisted suicide group ponderedSwiss authorities are investigating a macabre discovery: Dozens of urns filled with human ashes stuck in the mud beneath Lake Zurich. The surprise find — by divers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - European countries show wide variations in the percentage of terminally ill cancer patients who spend their last days at home, according to a study published online Monday. Enabling terminally ill patients to die at home rather than ...

A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter. Though the idea faces a host of ethical and practical challenges, the campaign is noteworthy ...

A campaign to give elderly people in the Netherlands the right to assisted suicide says it has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, hoping to push the boundaries another notch in the country that first legalized euthanasia. The signatures are enough to force ...

Prosecutors in England and Wales received fresh guidelines on assisted suicide to make it easier for them to decide whether to charge people who have helped sick loved ones to die. However, mercy killers would still face the full force of the ...

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Topic: Western Europe

UK study: Nonreligious doctors hasten death more

Britain the best place to die: global study

Correction: Germany right-to-die story

German court rules patients can decide to end life

British doctors must respect right to die

Dozens of urns with human ashes in Lake Zurich

Europe varies widely in at-home cancer deaths

Religion News in Brief

Dutch group endorses right to suicide for elderly

DPP clarifies law on assisted suicide

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