Assisted Suicide & Death with Dignity: Past, Present & Future

by Rita L. Marker

Table of Contents

PART I

Introduction

Right to Die Organizations

Oldest U.S. euthanasia organization calls it quits (view)

Euthanasia Society of America (view)
Spin off: Euthanasia Educational Council
(view)
New names: Society for the Right to Die and Concern for Dying
(view)
Reunification: Choice in Dying
(view)
A kinder gentler image: Partnership for Caring
(view)
Last Acts as the last act
(view)

From “Hemlock” to “Compassion and Choices” (view)

Hemlock (view)
Spin off: Americans against Human Suffering
(view)
ERGO formed
(view)
Another spin off: Compassion in Dying
(view)
Expectations of success
(view)
Hemlock undergoes another “makeover”
(view)
Caring Friends program
(view)
New name: End-of-Life Choices
(view)
Unification: Compassion and Choices
(view)
Exits
(view)

Final Exit Network (view)

Death with Dignity National Center (view)

Endnotes for Part I

PART II

Public Opinion

Polls: Measurement or manipulation (view)
Oregon as a model (view)

Oregon: The “poster state”

Official reports do not tell the whole story (view)
Other troubling aspects of Oregon’s law (view)

Endnotes for Part II

PART III

International Perspectives

Australia (view)

Death by Laptop (view)
“You don’t need a doctor”
(view)

The Netherlands (view)

Dutch physicians led the way (view)
Euthanasia and assisted suicide legalized
(view)

Belgium (view)

Other Countries (view)

Conclusion

Endnotes for Part III