(Natural News) The Dutch government is moving forward with controversial plans to allow children to legally end their own lives via state-sanctioned assisted suicide. Health minister Hugo De Jonge is drafting legislation to change the current rules to enable children aged 12 and younger to undergo doctor-assisted suicide with the consent of their parents. He […]

(Natural News) Advance care planning is when individuals prepare ahead of time for what kinds of care they want to receive when they’re facing a medical crisis that could end in their deaths. This is a long and difficult process for the individuals involved in the planning but, according to a study from Ohio State University researchers, it […]

(Natural News) Researchers from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea investigated the positive effects of music therapy, especially in relieving pain and improving the quality of life of terminally ill patients. The results of their study were published in the journal Alternative and Complementary Therapies. Patients with a terminal illness who are receiving hospice care tend […]

(Natural News) Should a doctor be allowed to give an adult who is terminally ill and has fewer than six months to live a medication that will allow them to die peacefully in their sleep if they request it? After opposing assisted death officially since 1996, the Massachusetts Medical Society has now become neutral on […]

(Natural News) A Kansas grandmother who has been fighting colorectal cancer for the past five years, has been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI), not because she had been drinking alcohol, but because she chose to drive after taking Marinol, a drug prescribed by her oncologist to help fight nausea and to try to […]