Support in Scotland for assisted suicide in non-terminal cases continues to decline, recent polling shows, as the nation considers legalisation that SPUC says is “out of step with public opinion”.

A Belgian health insurance boss has championed assisted suicide because it will save taxpayer money and free up hospital and care home spaces.

A 28-year-old Dutch woman suffering from depression is to be euthanised after being told by her psychiatrist that there’s nothing else that can be done to treat her.

MSP Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill for Scotland, tabled today, has been slammed by SPUC as constituting a “death warrant” for the vulnerable.

A patient who received assisted suicide drugs last year in the US state of Oregon took 137 hours to die, nearly six days, an annual report has stated, while also revealing that many people choose death because they cannot afford healthcare.

A pro-assisted suicide group in France has caused outrage after it used an image of Princess Diana’s wrecked car in which she was fatally wounded in 1997.

SPUC is urging supporters to submit a complaint to the BBC following its biased reporting on an assisted suicide committee report.

Canada has delayed controversial plans to extend assisted suicide to mentally ill Canadians after failing to find enough doctors to implement the policy.

An English Anglican priest has written an open letter to his elderly mother who is considering assisted suicide to explain why “I don’t want to live in that sort of a society”. When a nation opens that “Pandora’s box of nastiness”, Reverend Giles Fraser warns, “it is the most vulnerable…

Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.

Alastair Hamilton, 47, a chemistry teacher from London, paid £10,000 to a Swiss organisation called Pegasos to purchase his death via lethal injection. His family only found out about the circumstances of his death after the police checked his bank account in search for answers.

A cancer patient in Canada has been granted assisted suicide within days after waiting ten weeks to get through a chemotherapy “backlog”.

Ellen Clifford has warned that the disabled have been excluded from the assisted suicide debate, “a not insignificant group of people whose lives are directly threatened by [such] legalisation”.

There were 13,500 state-sanctioned assisted suicides in Canada in 2022, a projection anticipates in the run-up to the official release of statistics in July.