All news on the topic: Assisted suicide

A 25-year-old woman left paraplegic from a failed suicide attempt after she was gang raped is scheduled to end her life by euthanasia today.

Miles Cross admitted to four counts of intentionally performing an act capable of encouraging or assisting another person’s suicide.

Twin sisters who worked with entertainers including Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire have died on the same day after deciding together ’they no longer wanted to live’

When terminally ill Dennis Eccleston, 81, decided he wanted to end his life by assisted dying, his wife Mavis wanted to join him in a pact - but she survived and stood trial for murder

Dedicated wife Sharon Osbourne won’t stay in the CBB house because she 'can't cope' being away from rocker husband Ozzy who has revealed when he thinks his life will be cut short due to serious health issues

Dame Esther Rantzen revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been campaigning for euthanasia to be legalised in the UK in the months since

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries Van Agt and his wife Eugenie, both 93, have now been buried together after deciding to take their own lives at the same time because they "couldn't live without each other"

Despite spending his days in agony, Andrew, who suffers from spina bifida, tells The Mirror why he will never support Esther Rantzen's petition for assisted dying to become legal in the UK

Some argue that enshrining assisted dying in law could start a "slippery slope" to non-voluntary euthanasia, which could put more pressure on to poorer patients to ease the family burden

Paul Foreman is entering his final months on Coronation Street and he has asks Todd Grimshaw to do something he really shouldn't - and it leads to even more problems

Dame Esther Rantzen is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and is considering ending her life at physician-assisted suicide clinic Dignitas in Switzerland

Veteran journalist and presenter Dame Esther Rantzen, 83, urged parliamentarians to think of the elderly people in their lives and whether they'd want them to spend their final days in agony or to offer them a "gentle, peaceful death"

Dame Esther Rantzen admitted she was considering ending her life at Swiss clinic Dignitas as she battles stage four cancer

Dame Esther Rantzen is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and is considering ending her life at the physician-assisted suicide clinic based in Switzerland

Dame Esther Rantzen is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and is considering ending her life at the clinic based in Switzerland

Dame Esther Rantzen has said she is considering the option of assisted dying if her lung cancer treatment does not improve her condition

Mandy Appleyard said taking her mother Janet to Zurich so she could carry out an assisted suicide was "a day of fathomless sadness" but she did not know it would result in a police investigation

England's reluctance to embrace popular opinion on assisted dying puts families in an impossible position, says Polly Hudson

Kelly Louise Smith-May suffers from long Covid and has done since December 2021, but the mum-of-four now says she wants to end her own life, and her husband Stuart supports her

David Hunter has regular nightmares about ending his wife’s life after six weeks of her begging him every day due to her terminal illness - and has revealed the heart-wrenching final four words she said to him

Dignity in Dying called the current situation 'unsafe, unfair and unequal' and said current blanket ban will lead to more cases of dying people suffering

Beneath the slanging match, Australia are 2-0 up because they have played the smarter cricket - but their winning margins have been tight and their refusal to reprieve Bairstow shows they are scared of Bazball

The Royal College of Surgeons voted to fall in line with the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing