March 6, 2010: Washinton state publishes its first numbers on the now one year old DWD Act, started on March 5, 2009. 63 Terminally ill Washingtonians used the act in the first nine months to procure a prescription, only  36 actually died after ingestion. This was rfeported at a C&C Conference organised for the first birthday of the act.

  February 18, 2010:  Because of a ruling by the Montana Supreme Court in January 2010  -  following the 2008 verdict of Montana District Court  Judge Dorothy McCarter  -   saying that "nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide", now three States (Oregon, Washington and Montana) provide its residents with legal aid-in-dying

  February 15, 2010:  According to a recent Angus Reid poll the proportion of supporters for legal euthanasia (now 42%) has dropped by three points, while the proportion of opponents (now 36%) has increased by 4 points, since august 2009.

September 21, 2009: On 13 and 14 October, 2009,  Compassion & Choices is proud to present the

August 13, 2009:  On July 14, Republican John Dingell and eight fellow Democrats  introduced H.R. 3200, the health care reform bill, in the House.

Under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), terminally-ill adult Oregonians are allowed to obtain and use prescriptions from their physicians for self-administered, lethal medications. The Oregon Public Health Division is required by the Act to collect 粑

Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be granted parole from a prison in Michigan on June 1, the time when he would be eligible to be considered...

In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the US attorney-general cannot use federal drug laws to try to stop the right-to-die movement.