Topic: Western Europe

A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis has made legal history by winning her battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified. Debbie Purdy, 46, from Bradford, UK may go to Switzerland to end her life but feared her husband could be ...
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 searching ...

Europe varies widely in at-home cancer deaths

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 ...

Religion News in Brief

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 in ...
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.Spokeswoman Marie-Jose Grotenhuis of the "Of Free ...

New guidelines on assisted suicide

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 law, ...

DPP clarifies law on assisted suicide

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 law, ...

England clarifies law on assisted suicide

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 law, ...
Mercy killers will face the full force of the law under new guidelines on assisted suicide, the head of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said in comments published Thursday.But those who respond to a request from a loved one to help in their ...

England clarifies assisted suicide law

Prosecutors in England and Wales received fresh guidelines on assisted suicide Thursday that reduce the likelihood of people facing criminal charges for helping ailing loved ones to die.However, mercy killers are still open to the full force of the law, said Keir ...