ABOUT THE PATIENTS RIGHTS COUNCIL
ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
• Advance Directive Definitions
• American Bar Association Resolution (106A) about Advance Care Planning
• “Be Prepared”
• Do You Need an Advance Directive?
• Noncompliance with Advance Directives
• Protecting Yourself and Your Family
• Protective Medical Decisions Document
“ARTIFICIAL FEEDING” (See FOOD AND FLUIDS)
ASSISTED SUICIDE AND COST CONTAINMENT
ASSISTED SUICIDE & DEATH WITH DIGNITY: Past, Present & Future
ASSISTED SUICIDE – IMPACT ON MINORITIES AND THE POOR
ASSISTED SUICIDE: Not for Adults only?
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and teens
ASSISTED SUICIDE – REASONS
• “‘We never say no;’ The right-to-die movement abandons pretense”
“ASSISTED SUICIDE: The Continuing Debate” (139 K)
ATTEMPTS TO LEGALIZE EUTHANASIA & ASSISTED SUICIDE
BOOKS AND AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS
• Deadly Compassion relates the tragic death of Ann Humphry, the co-founder of the Hemlock Society, and the dark side of the euthanasia movement around the world.
• Euthanasia: False Light is a 14-minute award winning video that raises thought provoking questions about euthanasia.
• Forced Exit offers chilling evidence of just how powerful and dangerous the death culture in America has become and offers a clear-eyed, realistic exploration of one of the most important and wrenching ethical issues of our time.
• Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need (contact International Task Force for information and availability.)
CHILDREN and TEENS
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and teens
COMPLICATIONS
Documented fact sheet about the problems associated with assisted suicide
COST CONTAINMENT
• Killing patients proposed as cost cutting (Review of Freedom to Die — 4/99)
• Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment
DEATH RATES from HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE
DEFINITIONS (re euthanasia and assisted suicide)
DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE (Articles and links related to disability rights)
DO NOT RESUSCITATE (DNR)
• “New Data to Consider in D.N.R. Decisions“ (New York Times — 3/14/13)
• “Forced DNR Coming to Texas?” (National Review — 2/11/13)
DOUBLE EFFECT
ENGLAND (See: UNITED KINGDOM)
EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE & HEALTH CARE DECISIONS: PROTECTING YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY
• Table of Contents
• Part 1
• Part 2
“EUTHANASIA: FALSE LIGHT” (video)
FOOD AND FLUIDS
Includes Questions and Answers about “Artificial Feeding” and information about specific cases.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Answers to most common questions
Dying for the Cause: Foundation funding for the “right-to-die” movement (View as PDF)
FUTILE CARE
• “When Atlas Shrugs: May the State Wash Its Hands of Those in Need of LSMT?”
• “Supporters of TX “Futile Care” Law Continue to Maintain the Status Quo”
GENTLE APPROACH
Guide to interacting with a person who is semi-conscious or presumed to be in a coma
GONZALES v. OREGON
Facts, overview, amicus curiae briefs.
ISSUES — INTERNATIONAL by COUNTRY
KEVORKIAN
(Background, goals, activities, and known victims of Jack Kevorkian)
KEY OBJECTIONS TO THE LEGALIZATION OF ASSISTED SUICIDE
(Formulated by DREDF – Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund)
LAWS about ASSISTED SUICIDE in UNITED STATES
LINKS to Disability Rights, Government, Law, News, Pain Control
Living Will (See: Advance Directives)
MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
- N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D. and Catherine A. Hamilton, M.A.
“Competing Paradigms of Response to Assisted Suicide Requests in Oregon” - Herbert Hendin and Kathleen Foley:
“Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective - Russell Portenoy et al:
“Determinants of the Willingness to Endorse Assisted Suicide” - Robert Peat (New York Times – December 26, 2012)
“Doctors Warned on ‘Divided Loyalty” - Prokopetz and Lehmann (NEJM — July 12, 2012)
“Redefining Physicians’ Role in Assisted Dying”
MINORITIES AND THE POOR
Inequity in health care and its implications for assisted suicide.
MISDIAGNOSIS
“Medical misdiagnoses can have fatal consequences”
NEW YORK STATE TASK FORCE REPORT ON EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE
• “When Death is Sought” – Original Report (1994)
• 1997 Supplemental Report
NEWS ARTICLES and NEWS ARCHIVES
OBAMACARE (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)
ORDER FORM for PATIENTS RIGHTS COUNCIL MATERIALS
ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
“Should we allow organ donation euthanasia” by Dominic Wilkinson & Julian Savulescu
PAIN CONTROL
Power over Pain Brochure
PATIENT COMFORT AND CONTROL ACT (Arizona)
PATIENT PROTECTION and AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (Obamacare)
POLST (Also includes POST, MOLST, MOST and similar document information)
POWER OVER PAIN: How to Get the Pain Control You Need
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE
PROTECTIVE MEDICAL DECISIONS DOCUMENT
Schiavo (See: Food and Fluids)
SCOTLAND (See: UNITED KINGDOM)
SUICIDE AWARENESS
Information about suicide and depression
TAKE ACTION
• Alerts
• Media guide
UNITED STATES
• Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide Measures in the United States (1991-2006).
UNITED STATES SENATE TESTIMONY (5/25/06)
• Witness list
• Coleman testimony
• Marker testimony
• Smith testimony
UPDATE (PRC Newsletter)
VOLUNTARILY STOPPING EATING & DRINKING (VSED)
• Important Questions & Answers about VSED
WORDS USED IN ASSISTED SUICIDE DEBATE
• “Euthanasia’s Euphemisms” When a social movement must rely on euphemisms to obfuscate its goals, it is a good be there is something wrong…(First Things, 2/22/13)
• “Peers clash over right-to-die ‘spin’”
“In law, as in the English language, if you take your own life, whatever your state of health, that is suicide; and a doctor, or anyone else, who supplies you with the means to do so is assisted suicide,” he [Lord Carlile] said.
(The Telegraph — May 11, 2013)
• “When Killing Yourself Isn’t Suicide” Word games played in assisted-suicide debate (from National Review)
• “Words, Words, Words” Originally appeared in Duquesne Law Review as “The Art of Verbal Engineering.”
ZURICH DECLARATION
Right-to-die activists declare that “severe and enduring distress” is a justification for assisted suicide and euthanasia
