Scholars weigh in on efforts in Illinois and other states to pass assisted suicide legislation following Canada's lead.

Sponsors of a physician-assisted suicide bill in Illinois are trying to get a measure that would make it the 12th state to ...

Under the proposed Illinois legislation, death certificates would show the terminal illness as the cause of death, not ...

"Medical aid-in-dying" has become legalized in Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, with other states trying to pass ...

A bill that would legally allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients has stalled in the ...

Legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a doctor was passed by the Illinois House and now heads to the Senate.

Opponents of physician-assisted suicide legislation in Illinois are breathing a sigh of relief, but not for long because they say this is not the end of lawmakers' push for hastened deat ...

Under Senate Bill 1950, doctors would be allowed to prescribe terminally ill patients a lethal dose of medication that they ...

The Illinois House late in the day May 29 passed an assisted-suicide bill that Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said has the potential to spur ...

The plan would let those with less than six months to live end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase Cupich ...

Sponsors of a physician-assisted suicide bill in Illinois are trying to get a measure that would make it the 12th state to legalize medical aid in dying before the legislative session ends on ...

A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Illinois was not called for a vote in the Senate before the Legislature adjourned on June 1, effectively halting its progress for the session amid ...