All news on the topic: Assisted suicide

Zoraya ter Beek, 28, lived in a small village in the Netherlands and has been open about her debilitating mental health issues and has even shared her plans to end her own life

Liz Carr was an activist against assisted dying long before she was an actress - now she has made a new BBC documentary called Better Off Dead? tackling the subject

Dame Esther Rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer, has pleaded with MPs to join the Parliament debate on assisted dying in the UK after becoming a member of clinic Dignitas

Ana Estrada, 47, has become the first person to die by euthanasia in Peru after suffering from an incurable disease for several years and campaigning for the right to die

Jeremy Paxman, 73, was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2021. In a recent interview, Jeremy said Parkinson's is 'one of the most depressing things you could ever imagine' as it only gets worse

TV presenter and journalist Jeremy Paxman has revealed he considered going to the assisted suicide clinic Dignitas as he continues his struggle with Parkinson's Disease

Much-loved star Paul O'Grady died at home last March. A decade before his death, the broadcaster described how he had left very strict instructions when it came to his passing, raising a chuckle with his solicitor

Paola Marra died at the Swiss clinic on Wednesday, having fought breast and bowel cancer. The 53-year-old former music industry and charity sector worker teamed up with renowned photographer Rankin beforehand to speak out about assisted dying

When terminally ill Dennis Eccleston, 81, decided he wanted to end his life by assisted dying, his wife Mavis wanted to join him in a pact - but she survived and stood trial for murder

Dame Esther Rantzen revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been campaigning for euthanasia to be legalised in the UK in the months since

Some argue that enshrining assisted dying in law could start a "slippery slope" to non-voluntary euthanasia, which could put more pressure on to poorer patients to ease the family burden

Dame Esther Rantzen is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and is considering ending her life at physician-assisted suicide clinic Dignitas in Switzerland

Dame Esther Rantzen is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer and is considering ending her life at the physician-assisted suicide clinic based in Switzerland

Mandy Appleyard said taking her mother Janet to Zurich so she could carry out an assisted suicide was "a day of fathomless sadness" but she did not know it would result in a police investigation

England's reluctance to embrace popular opinion on assisted dying puts families in an impossible position, says Polly Hudson

David Hunter has regular nightmares about ending his wife’s life after six weeks of her begging him every day due to her terminal illness - and has revealed the heart-wrenching final four words she said to him

The Royal College of Surgeons voted to fall in line with the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing

David Hunter, a 75-year-old retired coal miner from Northumberland, is standing trial in Cyprus for premeditated murder after a plea deal on the lesser charge of manslaughter collapsed

Health chiefs from countries which have given ill people control over how they die shared a range of experiences in a debate on a potential change to the law in the UK

Retired coal miner Brit David Hunter, 75, is accused of killing his ailing wife - who suffered from a form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome - by strangling her before consuming a mixture of pills to take his own life in Cyprus