suicide

When California lawmakers finally passed AB2X-15, a controversial physician-assisted suicide bill in 2015, many opposition activists argued that the passage of legalized physician-assisted suicide would give insurers perverse incentives to…

Currently, several countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, allow patients who are suicidal to receive death by either lethal injection (euthanasia) or a self-administered prescription for lethal medication…

Three California legal counseling agencies are calling on the US Department of Homeland Security to investigate the death of a 74-year-old man with documented mental illness who died in medical isolation from suicide in a medical isolation…

Hartford, Conn., Jan 19, 2021 / 2:01 p.m. MT (CNA)- Disability advocates criticized a Connecticut-sponsored suicide bill for failing to protect itself against coercion and promoting the idea that terminally ill people are a burden on their…

Correlation in not causality. Just because A comes before B doesn't necessarily mean AB caused, even though many people predicted it would. But sometimes it cannot be ruled out. This could be the case with Oregon's decade-long Medical…