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Before I Die
Before I Die: A PBS program exploring the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today. Features real life stories about people who have faced these personal decisions. (End-of-Life)
http://www.thirteen.org/bid/ |
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Death with Dignity National Center
Death with Dignity National Center: Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying. (End-of-Life)
http://www.deathwithdignity.org |
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American Psychological Association: End-of-Life Care Issues and Care
American Psychological Association: End-of-Life Care Issues and Care: Report examines the role of psychology and psychologists in end-of-life decisions and quality of care issues. (End-of-Life)
http://www.apa.org/pi/eol/ |
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Innovations in End-of-Life Care
Innovations in End-of-Life Care: This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care. (End-of-Life)
http://www.edc.org/lastacts/ |
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Partnership for Caring
Partnership for Caring: A national, nonprofit organization devoted to raising consumer expectations for better end-of-life care. Includes information for those interested in end-of-life planning. Advanced directives for all U.S. states can also be downloaded. (End-of-Life)
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/ |
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Conscious Living Conscious Dying
Conscious Living Conscious Dying: Aims to raise community awareness of death and dying. Holds workshops on the physical, emotional and spiritual care of the dying. (End-of-Life)
http://members.austarmetro.com.au/~barbato/ |
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Project on Death in America
Project on Death in America: To understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement (End-of-Life)
http://www.soros.org/death/ |
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying." Biography, publications, quotes, and related links. (End-of-Life)
http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/ |
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On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying: Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S. (End-of-Life)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/ |
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End-of-life Care
End-of-life Care: End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers. (End-of-Life)
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_4_25.html |
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Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage: Non-profit agency providing services to people with terminal illnesses; education, videos and training on AIDS and death and dying including works by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Dannion Brinkley. (End-of-Life)
http://www.ktc.net/ritesofpassage/ |
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End-of-Life Decisions
End-of-Life Decisions: This message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America draws attention to end-of-life decisions and encourages action on it. (End-of-Life)
http://www.elca.org/dcs/endoflife.html |
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Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State
Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State: Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint. (End-of-Life)
http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/donal/pvs.htm |
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Death & Dying
Death & Dying: A developing collection of articles contributed by experts on all issues related to death and dying with links and current news features. (End-of-Life)
http://teresa_robbins.tripod.com/ |
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Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care
Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care: Articles and essays on patients' rights, Ethics Committees, the Right-to-Die Debate, and Physician Assisted Suicide. (End-of-Life)
http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~ennyman/ethics.html |
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On Death and the Dying Process
On Death and the Dying Process: Provides information, links, and book reviews that deal with death and the dying process. (End-of-Life)
http://www.elderhope.com/Death_Grief_Main.shtml |
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The End of Life - Exploring Death in America
The End of Life - Exploring Death in America: Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, "All Things Considered." (End-of-Life)
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/ |
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The Leaving Life Questionnaire
The Leaving Life Questionnaire: A guide to exploring ideas, feelings and experiences related to death and dying, quality of life and suffering, old age,and voluntary euthanasia. (End-of-Life)
http://leavelife.com/ |
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Last Acts
Last Acts: Campaign to improve care of the dying by coalition of healthcare professional and consumer organizations. News and discussion on death and dying, reports on palliative care, resource directory, free publications, and e-mail newsletter provided. (End-of-Life)
http://www.lastacts.org/ |
Additional
Information: End of Life issues in society have to do with whether death occurs "naturally," the quality of life near death, and who determines and who chooses among the alternatives for living or dying near the end of one's life.
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