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* Palliative Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Care [icon]
By Virginia F. Sendor and Patrice M. O'Connor. In an accessible question and answer format, the authors explain what hospice and palliative care is, describe the services offered to both patient and family (including children), discuss admission requirements, Medicare coverage, reimbursement issues, the resources available to patient and family, and how to locate these resources in the United States. Written with the patient and the patient's family in mind, this book is also a valuable resource for social workers, medical and nursing students, and health care professionals. Includes special sections on AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, advance directives, bereavement, the role of the physician, the role of volunteers, the concept of informed consent, and euthanasia. Published July 1997.

* Pain Management
University Of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Studies Group [icon]
A World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Policy and Communications in Cancer Care. This site provides an authoritative review of international public policy in relationship to pain management. Online content includes model guidelines for the use of controlled substances such as opioid medications for pain management, U.S. state medical board policies, detailed reviews of Asia, Europe, and Latin America, discussion of the relationship between pain management policies and demand for physician assisted suicide, and links to major pain management resources on the net.

* Death With Dignity
Growth House Guide To Death With Dignity [icon]
An overview of key issues in the death with dignity and right to die movements, including doctor assisted suicide, voluntary euthanasia, self deliverance, advance directives, durable power of attorney, living wills, DNR (do not resusitate) orders, and related matters. Has hypertext links to other sections of the Growth House topic database and links to "Best of the Net" websites.

Handbook For Mortals [icon]
By Joanne Lynn, M.D., and Joan Harrold, M.D. A comprehensive and authoritative guide to end of life care written for a general audience by a team that includes some of the world's top specialists. Offers a wealth of practical advice on all aspects of end of life care, including how to make decisions about care, where to find support and treatment resources, how to communicate with physicians, how to get effective pain management, palliative nutrition, withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, issues in hastening death, and a host of other fundamental concerns. Published March, 1999.

Dying Well [icon]
By Ira Byock, M.D. The author is a prominent spokesperson for the hospice movement and is president of the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. This book shows that the immediacy of death can give rare opportunities for emotional and spiritual growth. While presenting a compassionate look at how people can increase their control over health care at the end of life, Byock shares his opinions on the euthanasia debate, assisted suicide, vegetative states, and feeding tubes. Related web site is dyingwell.org.

Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America [icon]
In 2005, the Terri Schiavo case galvanized millions to think about end-of-life decision making and question when life ends and how to define a good death. William Colby, the lawyer for Nancy Cruzan, whose 1988 case was one of the first major right-to-die cases, surveys the law and the issues as they are today.

Compassion In Dying [icon]
Counsels terminally ill persons about intensive pain management, comfort or hospice care, and rational suicide. Located in Portland, Oregon. Site includes Supreme Court briefs on the right to die from their National Litigation Project.

Last Wish [icon]
By Betty Rollin. In this controversial popular bestseller TV journalist Betty Rollin tells of her mother Ida's two-and-a-half year struggle with ovarian cancer, ending with Ida's decision to end her own life. Reading like a novel, the story paints a realistic picture of difficult cancer chemotherapy and Betty's choice to help her mother commit suicide. The expanded 1998 edition includes current background material on the debate over physician-assisted suicide, a list of resource organizations, the complete text of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, and a question list about issues for use in discussion groups and classrooms. Published September 1998.

Final Choices: Seeking The Good Death [icon]
By Michael Vitez. This book grew out of a five-part newspaper series on end of life care which won a 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Michael Vitez. Intended for a general audience, the book helps health care consumers examine tough choices in medical care, hospice alternatives, home care, assisted suicide, durable power of attorney, and related issues. Published February, 1998.

Scottish Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VESS) [icon]
Devoted to death with dignity, self deliverance, living wills, and voluntary euthanasia.

DeathNet [icon]
Presented by the Right To Die Society of Canada. Has material on death with dignity, euthanasia, assisted suicide, living wills, and advance directives.

Dying With Dignity [icon]
A Canadian society concerned with the quality of dying.

Doctor-Assisted Suicide: A Guide [icon]
A good compilation of links related to euthanasia provided by Longwood College Library. Includes legal briefs, advance directives, living wills, and other background materials. You can search the Growth House database from this site.

ERGO's Euthanasia World Directory [icon]
The Euthanasia Research And Guidance Organization (ERGO) is devoted to the topic of physician-assisted dying for persons who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to end their suffering. Includes general information on the right to die movement.

Euthanasia in Holland [icon]
Fact sheet on how assisted suicide actually works in the Netherlands.

Practical Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide [icon]
Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 January 1997. 126:146-151. Reviews medical issues and literature related to patient motivation and mental state when requesting euthanasia, and the physician-patient ethical issues involved.

Voluntary Euthanasia Society Of Tasmania [icon]
Information on advance directives, death with dignity, and links to related sites.

* Miscellaneous Resources
When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context [icon]
This report by the New York State Department of Health covers legal and ethical issues in end of life care with specific attention to policy issues in that state. The report seeks to clarify important considerations for do-not resusitate orders (DNRs), withdrawl of life-sustaining treatment, advance treatment instructions, and related matters. Content includes statistics on the epidemiology of suicide and discussion of suicide among special patient populations. The report was authored by the Task Force On Life and the Law, a state group convened by Governor Mario Cuomo in 1984.

The Hemlock Society USA [icon]
Supports legalized physician aid in dying for terminally ill adults. Has chapters in 40 states.

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