A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the ...

LONDON — Europe’s top human rights court has agreed to hear a case being brought against Belgium by a man whose mother was euthanized in 2012 for depression, the second case that implicates one of ...

BRUSSELS – Belgian lawmakers clashed sharply on Wednesday over whether to grant terminally ill children the right to ask to die, a legal option already possessed by the country’s adults. The issue is ...

In Belgium, where euthanasia is now legal for people older than 18, the government is considering extending it to children — something that no other country has done. The same bill would offer the ...

BRUSSELS -- Belgian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Thursday to extend the country's euthanasia law to children younger than 18. The law empowers children with terminal ailments who are in great pain ...

BRUSSELS -- A Belgian man convicted of murder and rape is being put to death. Yet the country doesn't have the death penalty. Confused? Authorities have granted a request for assisted suicide by the ...

This week Belgium is expected to become the first country in the world to allow terminally ill children to choose euthanasia. Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002 for those 18 and over, and the number ...