Assisted Suicide

A California actress who grew up in the Roanoke Valley is hoping to make a feature film here.  "It's a Good Day to Die," is  a comedy about assisted suicide, and this week, Andrea Shreeman has been meeting with community leaders and potential investors.  ...

It takes courage to face death, be it yours or another’s To the editor: There is no dignity in cowardice. Those who apply the term “death with dignity” to assisted suicide or euthanasia diminish the extraordinary dignity of every...

There are so many travesties in our world that sometimes it makes one wonder which ones to comment about and which ones to shout about with outrage. Recently I came across something that makes my blood boil. Here is my outrage: In the Netherlands some...

In 1970 a man with terminal bone cancer came to see Dr. Peter Goodwin, who practiced family medicine in Portland, Ore. The man had intractable pain and saw no point in prolonging his suffering. He pleaded with Goodwin for pills to end his life. His...

Colleen Kegg hasn't worked out the details of her exit plan yet. But about one thing, Kegg is clear: When she can no longer feed herself or go to the bathroom without assistance, she will take steps to end her life. A rare and incurable neurological...

SAN DIEGO -- A former schoolteacher who sold suicide kits that she once touted as leaving people "eternally sleepy" pleaded guilty Friday to a tax evasion charge and agreed to stop encouraging people to commit suicide. Sharlotte Hydorn mailed more than...

Q. British author Sir Terry Pratchett recently presented a BBC documentary called “Choosing To Die,” about assisted suicide. Pratchett, the bestselling author of the “Discworld” series of fantasy novels, was diagnosed with...

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday approved slight revisions to their policy governing child sex abuse, saying the church would not tolerate offending priests. But critics said children were still vulnerable. After minimal debate, the bishops passed...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened their spring meeting Wednesday with votes planned on revising the church's policy on protecting children from clergy sex abuse, and on a statement opposing physician-assisted suicide. More than 300 clergy...

  Goodbye, Dr. Death. Yes, the vilified Dr. Jack Kevorkian is no longer with us and for that many are grateful and pleased. But the issue he raised -- dying on one's own terms -- continues on. When the Detroit area pathologist died on June 3 the...

He was known as Dr. Death, a Michigan physician who helped his patients kill themselves. In doing so, Jack Kevorkian inflamed a nationwide debate in the 1990s over a terminally ill patient's right to die. And he served eight years in prison for second-...

DETROIT (AP) — Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world’s attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder, has died in a Detroit area hospital...