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Bioethical Issues
Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide

• Death and Dying-- extensive text files and statistical files, on topics like how we die, genocide, hospices, death and the military (including an extensive file on effects of radiation during the cold war).
• Doctor Assisted Suicide: a Web Pathfinder--from Longwood College Library.
• End of Life Choices: Feeding Tubes and Ventilators
• End of Life Issues -- articles from The American Journal of Bioethics online, includes multimedia examples.
• the Ethical Debate--Chapter 5 of a May 1994 report from the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, titled When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context. It provides excellent historical and philosophical background. For the text of the entire report, click here.
• Euthanasia-- an outstanding collection of document files and data, with particular emphasis on the Catholic perspective.
• Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide--All Sides--Religious Tolerance, with definitions of terms, statements from various religious groups, examination of ethical issues, and more. Use more than this one source though, in your paper.
• Euthanasia: the Dutch experience-- outlines Dutch law on assisted suicide, definitions, limitations, etc.
• International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force--includes information on countries with assisted suicide laws, and their experiences, statistics on death and suicide, information on pain control, and on managed care/cost containment issues.
• Not Dead Yet--sponsored by disability activists opposed to assisted suicide. A view from the other side.
• Right to Die: Understanding the Issue -- The Understanding the Issue section lays out the facts and policy alternatives, while the Public Opinion section offers a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
• Suicide Facts and Statistics -- from the U.S. Nat'l Institute of Mental Health.
• Why the Concept of Brain Death is Valid as a Definition of Death -- from the Vatican.