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

I do believe there are the votes and it is likely it will come to the floor,” Stewart-Cousins told reporters Thursday.

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

A bill advancing in Illinois would allow terminally ill adults to end life on their terms with doctor support.

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 ...

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

A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide stalled in the Illinois General Assembly last week amid ardent opposition from ...

Aid-in-dying legislation remains at the Illinois Statehouse after it failed to clear the Illinois Senate before legislators ...

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