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Glossaries of Terms
Aging, Death, and Dying
Advance Directives and Living Wills
Hospice Care
Pain and Pain Management
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Legal Decisions and Court Documents
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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