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Prominent Australian right-to-die doctor Philip Nitschke on Thursday vowed to continue giving advice on how to end life after the Australian Medical Board used emergency powers to suspend him.

• 24 июля 2014, 11:01

Belgium has become the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of all ages, after a heated debate in which critics questioned a child's ability to make the decision to die.

• 14 февраля 2014, 11:03

Abortion and euthanasia will be among hot button issues on the table when Pope Francis meets embattled French President Francois Hollande.

• 24 января 2014, 14:29

Eleven years after making euthanasia legal for adults, Belgium came a step closer to extending mercy-killing to terminally-ill children Wednesday after an intense public debate on the ethical issues at stake.

• 29 ноября 2013, 13:58

A court in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province upheld the nation's ban on euthanasia Thursday.

• 11 октября 2013, 18:56

Legislators in the US state of Vermont approved a "death-with-dignity" bill Monday enabling terminally ill patients to take their own lives with lethal medication requested from their doctors.

• 14 мая 2013, 16:30

Deaf Belgian identical twins used a decade-old euthanasia law in a mercy-killing pact after they began to go blind.

• 14 января 2013, 17:56