He argued that medically assisted suicide would not only ease the emotional pressure on doctors but also reduce the number of messy suicides.

The sick, the terminally ill and the disabled are invariably the first to be regarded as proper subjects for medically assisted suicide.

In addition, medically assisted detoxification alone is ineffective as a treatment for addiction.

Barbiturates are the same class of drug used in medically assisted suicide.

Adoption of a child from an illegitimate form of medically assisted conception is not allowed.

The physician is the only qualified person to practice medically assisted conception in all its permitted varieties.

He intervened in Italian politics this month to keep in place a highly restrictive law on medically assisted fertility.

Manipulation under anaesthesia, or medically assisted manipulation, currently has insufficient evidence to make any strong recommendations.

Opinion polls consistently show that up to three-quarters of the population accept medically assisted suicides.

Q: Is medically assisted suicide a form of cowardice?