assisted suicide

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican's top bioethics official calls `'reprehensible" the suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated she wanted to die with dignity.

A push to legalize assisted suicide continues in New Jersey.

PARIS (AP) -- One French court acquitted a doctor of poisoning seven terminally ill patients while another ordered physicians to suspend treatment for a comatose man, while Britain's top court said the country's ban on assisted suicide may be incompatible with human rights. The decisions of the past few days are fueling the arguments of Europeans who say the duty of doctors is to end the suffering

Terminally ill New Jerseyans may soon be able to obtain prescription drugs to end their lives on their own terms.

A New Jersey Assembly committee has cleared a measure that would allow terminally ill patients to be prescribed medication that would end their lives.