Australian Football League (AFL) player and coach Robert Walls has died aged 74, after using voluntary assisted dying laws.

For almost two decades, Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has been quietly focussed on addressing local concerns on the islands he ...

A bill to allow terminally-ill adults to end their lives has passed an initial vote at Holyrood.

Bill returns to the House of Commons on Friday. But a group of leading social care organisations has raised concerns over the ...

The assisted dying Bill is at risk of failing because MPs are considering pulling their support, The Telegraph can disclose.

Current laws prevent medics from helping any patient to carry out their wish to die. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) ...

MPs will soon vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill. Analysis of the second reading shows how religion, identity and ...

A BBC survey of GPs also found a majority were opposed, although it was not a representative sample. BBC News sent more than ...

Leadbeater says hers is the only bill in the world with ‘three layers of scrutiny’ in the form of sign-off by two doctors and a High Court judge, and would offer the ‘safest choice’ for mentally ...

Kim Leadbeater has proposed that advertising assisted dying services should be banned as she attempts to strengthen her Bill ...

Cumbrians MPs are set to resume debating the assisted dying bill when it returns to parliament this week.

MSPs backed the general principles of assisted dying as psychiatrists raised "serious concerns" over Bill. | ITV National ...