Assisted suicide

Officers stand by a police van as they leave the grounds of the courthouse complex after the trial of David Hunter in the southwest coastal city of Paphos, Cyprus, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. A British man facing a premeditated murder charge over the death of his ill wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos is expected to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Dec. 13, with the court to pass sentence at a later date, a state prosecutor said Monday. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UK man to plead guilty to manslaughter in wife’s death

Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his sick wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos say they’re hopeful the court will suspend any sentence it hands down to their client after he pleads guilty to manslaughter next week.

Jos van Wijk, chairman of the Cooperative Last Will, leaves the court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, where campaigners calling for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Netherlands took the Dutch state to court, arguing its ban breaches human rights norms. The case at The Hague District Court was brought by Cooperative Last Will, which has long urged a change of the law to allow people to help relatives end their lives. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch activists sue government over assisted suicide

FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media during a joint statement with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis prior to their working diner at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Sept. 12, 2022. Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday Sept.13, 2022 a national debate meant to broaden end-of-life options that will include exploring the possibility of legalizing euthanasia, with the aim to implement changes next year.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

France to open debate on legalizing assisted suicide

Lynda Bluestein is shown in Bridgeport, Conn. Lynda Bluestein, 75, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who has terminal fallopian tube cancer sued Vermont on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives. (Lynda Bluestein via AP)

Woman sues over residency requirement for assisted suicide

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, shows the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Oregon has abandoned a requirement that restricted the use of its first-in-the-nation death-with-dignity law to residents of the state, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide

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Queensland state Deputy Premier Steven Miles, center, waves to the public gallery after the vote for the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill at Queensland Parliament in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Voluntary euthanasia became legal in a fifth Australian state more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)

Another Australian state legalizes voluntary euthanasia

This photo provided by the Colleton County sheriff's office shows Curtis Edward Smith. State police say a prominent South Carolina lawyer tried to arrange his own death this month so his son would get $10 million in life insurance. But authorities say the planned fatal shot only grazed Alex Murdaugh's head on Sept. 4. The State Law Enforcement Division says it charged the shooter, 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith, with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts. (Colleton County Sheriffs Office via AP)

Police: Lawyer Murdaugh arranged own death but shot grazed

Cecilia Heyder, a Chilean activist for the right to a dignified death and who suffers from metastatic cancer, lupus and a blood disorder, sits during an interview with The Associated Press at a park in Santiago, Chile, April 15, 2021. Heyder hopes that in the coming days lawmakers will approve legislation that decriminalizes euthanasia, which establishes that people suffering from serious and irremediable illnesses can request euthanasia or assisted suicide. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile legislature OKs euthanasia bill, which heads to Senate

New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide

Top Portugal court nixes euthanasia law, says it’s imprecise

People protest against a law to legalize euthanasia in front of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. The Spanish Parliament debates on votes on a bill to legalize euthanasia for those people suffering "unbearably" from a chronic or incurable disease. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s parliament votes to legalize euthanasia

Christians, Muslims, Jews unite against assisted suicide

Colorado doctor challenges firing over assisted suicide

Italian Catholic bishops oppose assisted suicide ruling

Company says clarity needed on Colorado assisted suicide law

Minnesota lawmakers will hear disputed assisted suicide bill

Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signs a bill Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in her office in Augusta, Maine, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication. (AP Photo/Marina Villeneuve)

Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2017, file photo, the State House is surrounded by fall foliage in Augusta, Maine. The Democratic-led state Senate voted Tuesday, June 4, 2019, to legalize doctor-assisted suicide. The house approved it the day before. The office of Gov. Janet Mills said she has not yet taken a position on the bill. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Bill to legalize assisted suicide in Maine goes to governor

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