Assisted dying passed the first hurdle to becoming legal in France for certain terminally ill citizens nearing the end of ...

Coercion was on everyone’s minds in Holyrood’s dramatic debate on assisted dying earlier this month. Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying Bill offers terminally ill, mentally competent Scots the option to ...

Doctor Geri Hignett protests against a change in the law on assisted dying outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, ...

Scottish Parliament voted last week to support the principle of assisted dying but opponents say Bill will not pass ...

The Scottish Parliament has given its initial backing to legislation to legalise assisted dying. A bill tabled by Liberal ...

For the third time in Scottish parliamentary history, MSPs are to vote on plans to legalise assisted dying. The ballot, which ...

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill says that eligible applicants must be: To have capacity, the bill says a person applying for assisted death must be capable of ...

GPs have called for an opt in system for doctors rather than medics having to actively object to participate in assisted ...

On Monday, the church's General Assembly rejected a proposal which would have scrapped the kirk's opposition to the practice, by a vote of 149-145.

Britain's proposed assisted dying law for terminally ill people will be debated in parliament on Friday, when lawmakers ...

In the meantime, Scotland’s Assisted Dying Bill champion, Scottish Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur, said he’ll continue to have ...

Campaigners hailed a "watershed" moment in the history of Scottish devolution and praised MSPs for "listening to dying people and reflecting their views".