A bill to allow terminally-ill adults to end their lives has passed an initial vote at Holyrood.

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

The general principles of Scotland's Assisted Dying Bill is backed by 70 MSPs and will now go on to be scrutinised further.

McArthur’s bill is now the furthest assisted dying legislation has ever gotten in Scotland, but it still has two more stages of amendment, scrutiny, and debate to go before MSPs will have a final vote ...

For the third time in Scottish parliamentary history, MSPs are to vote on plans to legalise assisted dying. The ballot, which would allow terminally-ill adults to seek medical help to end their lives, ...

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

An assisted dying agenda is completely incompatible with a system where palliative care is so underfunded and undervalued.

The former first minister said there were not enough safeguards protecting vulnerable people ahead of a vote at Holyrood next week.

Legislation to allow terminally ill people in Scotland to take their own life is being put forward by the Liberal Democrat ...

MPs are debating the Assisted Dying Bill for the first time since it passed its first stage in Parliament last year. In the months since that historic vote, several changes both large and small have ...

The debate over assisted dying has reached a critical juncture in Scotland as MSPs prepare to cast their vote on the bill next week.

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