Respirator Allowed to Be Removed From Comatose Grandmother A high court said Tuesday that the family of a comatose 73-year-old grandmother could have her feeding tube and respirator removed in a ruling that acknowledged a patient’s right to ...
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A Personal Story of Assisted Suicide In a new memoir, The Last Goodnights, John West writes about his decision to help both his terminally-ill parents end their lives, separately, by assisted suicide — first his father, who suffered from cancer, an...
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Right-to-die case splits Italy Eluana Englaro, the 38-year-old comatose woman who was at the center of an Italian right-to-die case, died on Monday night, the clinic said.