With France now joining just five other EU countries that permit assisted dying, millions of Europeans still face radically different choices over how they can end unbearable suffering, depending purely on which border they live behind.

France was on Wednesday set to move closer to joining the ranks of countries that guarantee the right to assisted dying, after the long journey to adoption of a controversial bill…

Some can permit euthanasia, when a caregiver induces a patient's death at their request. Others in some cases grant permission for assisted dying, when someone helps a patient end…

The bill gives adults with incurable illness the right to assisted dying.