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Aging, Death, and Dying
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Resources for Caregivers
Bereavement
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Glossaries
of Terms
Partnership
for Caring's Glossary of Terms
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/Resources/glossary_set.html
Euthanasia
and Research Guidance Organization's Glossary of Terms
http://www.finalexit.org/more-glossary.html
Aging,
Death, and Dying
Aging
With Dignity
http://www.agingwithdignity.org/
Americans
For Better Care of the Dying
http://www.abcd-caring.org
Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life
Institute of Medicine
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/approaching/
Before
I Die PBS Online
http://www.thirteen.org/bid/
Center
to Improve Care of the Dying
http://www.gwu.edu/~cicd
Center
for Loss and Renewal
http://www.lossandrenewal.com/
Death
and Dying Home Page
http://dying.about.com/health/dying/
DeathNet
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/
Dying
Well
http://www.dyingwell.org
End-of-Life
Care: A Guide for Seniors and Caregivers
Steven Lipson, MD, American Geriatrics Society
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/education/forum/endoflife.shtml
The End
of Life: Exploring Death in America
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/
The End
of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/start.cfm
Ethical
Issues in Terminal Health Care
http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~ennyman/ethics.html
Ethical
Exits
http://www.ethicalexits.com
Growth
House: Guide To Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement, and End Of Life
Resources
http://www.growthhouse.org
Jewish
Law: End of Life Choices in Halacha
http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/EndofLife.html
The Natural
Death Handbook (1993)
http://www.globalideasbank.org/natdeath/ndh0.html
Of Life
and Death
Canadian Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted
Suicide
http://www.parl.gc.ca/english/senate/com-e/euth-e/rep-e/lad-tc-e.htm
On Our
Own Terms: Moyers on Dying PBS
http://www.pbs.org/onourownterms
Principles
for Care of Patients at the End of Life: An Emerging Consensus among
the Specialties of Medicine (December 1999)
http://www.milbank.org/endoflife/
Project
on Death in America: Transforming the Culture of Dying
http://www.soros.org/death/index.htm
Quality
of End-of-Life Care: The Right of Every Canadian (June 2000)
Canadian Senate Subcommittee Report
http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/upda-e/rep-e/repfinjun00-e.htm
Sociology
of Death and Dying
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death.html
Spiritual
Care at the End of Life
http://members.tripod.com/geanc/spiritualcare/index.html
Advance
Directives and Living Wills
10 Legal
Myths About Advance Medical Directives
Charles P. Sabatino, J.D, Commission on Legal Problems of the
Elderly, American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org/elderly/myths.html
Advance
Directives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/advdir.htm
Advance
Directives and Do Not Resuscitate Orders
American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.familydoctor.org/handouts/003.html
Consumer's
Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org/elderly/toolkit/home.html
Health
Care Advance Directives Form Sources
http://www.abanet.org/elderly/sources.html
Legal
Concerns: Advance Directives/Living Wills
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/topics/legal06.htm
The Living
Will and Values History Project
http://www.euthanasia.org/lwvh.html
Living
Wills Bibliography
http://www.keln.org/bibs/ubel.html
The Living
Will Center
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/LWC.html
Partnership
for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/HomePage/
Shape
Your Health Care Future with Health Care Advance Directives (1995)
American Association of Retired Persons, ABA Commission on Legal
Problems of the Elderly, and American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/public/booklets/livgwill.htm
U.S. Living
Will Registry
http://www.uslivingwillregistry.com/
Will to
Live Project
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/index.html
Hospice
Care
American
Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
http://www.aahpm.org/
American
Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org/
Canadian
Hospice Palliative Care Association
http://www.cpca.net/home.htm
Center
to Advance Palliative Care
http://www.capcmssm.org
The GRACE
Project (Guiding Responsive Action in Corrections at End-of-Life)
http://www.volunteersofamerica.org/xq/CFM/folder_id.122/qx/tier2_ka.cfm
Hospice
Cares
http://hospice-cares.com/
Hospice
Foundation of America
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
Hospice
Net Death and Dying, Caregiving and Grief
http://www.hospicenet.org/
International
Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
http://www.hospicecare.com/
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
http://www.nhpco.org/
National
Hospice Foundation
http://www.hospiceinfo.org/
National
Prison Hospice Association
http://www.npha.org/
Pain
and Pain Management
American
Academy of Pain Management
http://www.aapainmanage.org/
American
Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives
http://www.aacpi.org/
American
Chronic Pain Association
http://www.theacpa.org/
American
Pain Foundation
http://www.painfoundation.org/
American
Pain Society
http://www.ampainsoc.org/
American
Society for Action on Pain
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/asap/
Chronic
Pain and Fatigue Research Center
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/fmscfs/
Chronic
Pain Clearinghouse
http://painmanagementtheory.homestead.com/
Chronic
Pain Foundation
http://www.chronicpainfoundation.org/
International
Association for the Study of Pain
http://www.iasp-pain.org/
Mayday
Pain Project
http://www.painandhealth.org
National
Foundation for the Treatment of Pain
http://www.paincare.org/
The National
Pain Foundation
http://www.painconnection.org/
Pain.com
http://www.pain.com/
Pain Management
Resources Bedside Pain Manager
http://www.bedsidepainmanager.com/
Pain Medicine
and Palliative Care
http://www.stoppain.org/palliative_care/index.html
Euthanasia
and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Compassion
in Dying
http://www.compassionindying.org/
Citizens
United Resisting Euthanasia (CURE)
http://pw2.netcom.com/~cureltd/index.html
Death
with Dignity National Center
http://www.deathwithdignity.org
Declaration
on Euthanasia (1980)
Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Vatican
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19800505_euthanasia_en.html
Dutch
Euthanasia Policy
Radio Netherlands.
http://www.rnw.nl/society/html/euthanasiaindex.html
Dutch
Voluntary Euthanasia Society
http://www.nvve.nl/english/
Euthanasia
and End of Life Decisions
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia/
Euthanasia
and Research Guidance Organization (ERGO)
http://www.finalexit.org/
Euthanasia
and Physician Assisted Suicide: All Sides
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm
Euthanasia
Prevention Coalition
http://www.epcc.ca/
Euthanasia
Prevention Coalition (British Columbia, Canada)
http://www.epc.bc.ca/index.html
Exit:
Enabling Choice and Dignified Death (Scotland)
http://www.euthanasia.org/
First
Do No Harm (UK)
http://www.donoharm.org.uk/
Guide
to Doctor-Assisted Suicide Sites
http://web.lwc.edu/administrative/library/suic.htm
Hemlock
Society USA
http://www.hemlock.org/
Interactive
Map of Physician-Assisted Suicide Laws
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/statebystate/state.asp
International
Anti-Euthanasia Task Force
http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/index.htm
Islamicity:
Euthanasia
http://islamicity.com/Science/euthanas.shtml
The Kevorkian
Controversy
Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/index/extra2.htm
http://www.freep.com/suicide/index.htm
Not Dead
Yet Disability Activists Opposed to the Legalization of Assisted
Suicide
http://www.notdeadyet.org/
Oregon
Death with Dignity Act
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/ergo_orlaw.html
Oregon's
Death with Dignity Act Annual Report
State of Oregon Health Division.
http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/pas/ar-index.htm
Project
Life
http://www.projlife.org/
U.S. Catholic
Bishops: Euthanasia
http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/issues/euthanas/
Voluntary
Euthanasia Society (UK)
http://www.ves.org.uk/
When Death
is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context
New York State Department of Health
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/provider/death.htm
World
Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life
http://www.euthanasia.com/belgium.html
Legal
Decisions and Court Documents
Cruzan
v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
Date Argued: December 6, 1989; Date Decided: June 25,
1990, 5-4
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/88-1503.ZS.html
US Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals, Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington.
1995.
Opinion by Judge John Noonan.
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/ninth_circ.html
US Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals, Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington.
1996.
Majority Opinion by Judge Stephen Reinhart.
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/us9.html
US Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals. Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington.
1996.
Dissenting opinion by Judge Robert R. Beezer
http://www.rights.org/deathnet/us9B.html
Quill
v. Vacco. New York, Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Date Argued: September 1, 1995; Date Decided: April 2,
1996
Opinon by Judge Minor
http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndcircuit/april96/95-7028.html
Quill
v. Vacco. New York, Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Date Argued: September 1, 1995; Date Decided: April 2,
1996
Concurring opinion by Judge Calabresi
http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndcircuit/april96/95-7028.html#conc
Amicus
Brief filed before Second Circuit of Appeals by the American Geriatrics
Society (1996)
http://www.soros.org/death/agsbrief.html
Appeal,
Quill v. Vacco. Supreme Court Decision. 1995.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1858.ZS.html
Appeal,
Washington et al. v. Glucksberg et al. Supreme Court Decision. 1996.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-110.ZS.html
Amicus
Brief. Assisted Suicide: The Brief by Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel,
Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson.
(March 27, 1997)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1237
Amicus
Brief by the Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute.
(1996)
http://www.soros.org/death/amicusb.html
Amicus
Brief by Bioethics Professors George Annas et al (1996)
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/Brief.htm
Amicus
Brief of Not Dead Yet and American Disabled (1995)
http://www.notdeadyet.org/brief.html
Amicus
Brief of National Hospice Organization (1996)
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/PAS/31a.html
Amicus
Brief of ACLU et al. (1996)
http://www.aclu.org/court/quill.html
Michael
Uhlmann, "The Legal Logic of Euthanasia," 1996
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9606/uhlmann.html
J. Bottum,
"Debriefing the Philosophers," First Things, June/July
1997, 26-30.
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9706/bottum.html
Joan Biskupic,
"Unanimous Decision Points to Tradition of Valuing Life,"
Washington Post, June 27, 1997
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/die.htm
Resources
for Caregivers
Because
We Care: A Guide for People Who Care
http://www.aoa.gov/wecare/default.htm
Caregiver
Survival Resources
http://www.caregiver911.com/
Caregiving.com:
Helping You Help Aging Relatives
http://www.caregiving.com/
Empowering
Caregivers
http://www.care-givers.com/pages/main.html
Family
Caregiver Alliance
http://www.caregiver.org/
Interfaith
Caregivers Alliance
http://www.interfaithcaregivers.org/
MedLine
Plus: Caregivers
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/caregivers.html
NFCA:
National Family Caregivers Association
http://www.nfcacares.org/
Rub My
Neck: A Caregivers and Seniors Site
http://www.rubmyneck.com/
Web of
Care
http://www.webofcare.com/
Well Spouse
Foundation
http://www.wellspouse.org/
Bereavement
The AIDS
Memorial Quilt
http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Bereaved
Parents of the U.S.A.
http://www.bereavedparentsusa.org/
Bereavement:
A Magazine of Hope and Healing
http://www.bereavementmag.com/
The Compassionate
Friends
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/
The Compassionate
Friends of the UK
http://www.compassionatefriends.org.uk/
GriefNet.org
http://griefnet.org/
Pen Parents,
Inc.
http://www.penparents.com/
Widowed
Persons Services
http://www.aarp.org/griefandloss/home.html
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