Best-selling British fantasy author Terry Pratchett says he believes an assisted suicide panel should be set up to help Britons who want to kill themselves. Pratchett, one of the country's most-read writers, says his proposed panel would allow suicidal Britons to make their case for ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland is looking to change the law on assisted suicide to make sure it is only used as a last resort by the terminally ill, and to limit so-called "death tourism," the government said on Wednesday. "We have no interest, as a country, in being attractive for suicide tourism," Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference in ...

A judge has ordered Georgia to return $330,000 seized from an assisted suicide group in February. Forsyth County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley wrote in an order filed Oct. 7 that the money should be returned because the state hadn't filed the necessary ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin refused to retreat from her debunked claim that a proposed health care overhaul would create "death panels," as the growing furor over end-of-life consultations forced a key group of senators to abandon the idea in their bill. Sen. Chuck Grassley ...