CLEVELAND, Ohio — Terminally ill Ohioans who want to decide when life should end have few options, with just two states on opposite coasts offering a legal path for nonresidents to access medical aid ...

Credit: Getty Images As of 2025, MAID is authorized in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine, New Mexico, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, ...

Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. A topic that we often find up in the air for discussion is medical aid in dying or assisted suicide, ...

While most states still ban physician-assisted death, a majority of Americans see the practice as morally permissible or ...

Suffering is a universal feeling, whether felt by ourselves or when watching someone we care about in pain. From newborn ...

For roughly the past decade, advocates have pushed for New York to approve a law that would allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the assistance of their doctor. On Tuesday, the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Should a terminally ill person have the right to end their own life? That is a question New York State lawmakers will consider when they head back to Albany. Advocates who are ...

Letters to the editor can be submitted by sending an email to tuletters@timesunion.com or completing this form. See our guidelines on letters. What matters most in the debate around medical aid in ...

WELCOME BACK TO CLOSE UP ON SO MANY ISSUES IN CONCORD. LAWMAKERS ARE FIRMLY ENTRENCHED IN THEIR PARTIZAN POSITIONS. VOTES ARE PREDICTABLE. THERE’S NOT A LOT OF CROSSING PARTY LINES. THAT’S NOT SO WITH ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This op-ed originally ran in the Times Union out of Albany. Two and a half centuries ago, our founding fathers established a vision of a country based on limited government and broad ...

Terminally ill New Yorkers hoping to relieve their suffering through legal medical means encountered yet another devastating setback on Friday, as the Medical Aid in Dying Act failed to advance ...