ABOUT THE PATIENTS RIGHTS COUNCIL
• Advance Directive Definitions
• Do You Need an Advance Directive?
• Protecting Yourself and Your Family
• Protective Medical Decisions Document
“ARTIFICIAL FEEDING” (See FOOD AND FLUIDS)
ASSISTED SUICIDE: COMPARISON OF STATE LAWS PERMITTING DOCTOR- PRESCRIBED SUICIDE
• Laws as of September 2017
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? See: Children and Teens
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and teens
“ASSISTED SUICIDE: RHETORIC v. REALITY”
“ASSISTED SUICIDE: The Continuing Debate” (139 K)
ATTEMPTS TO LEGALIZE EUTHANASIA & ASSISTED SUICIDE
• 2015 Doctor-Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed in U.S.
• 2016 Doctor-Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed in U.S.
• 2017 Doctor-Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed in U.S.
• 2018 Doctor-Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed or Carried Over from 2017
• 2019 Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed or Carried Over from 2018
• 2020 Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed or Carried Over from 2019
• 2021 Prescribed Suicide Bills Proposed or Expansion of Existing Laws
• Attempts to Legalize euthanasia & Assisted Suicide in U.S.since 1994
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.)
COMPARISON OF STATE LAWS PERMITTING DOCTOR-PRESCRIBED SUICIDE
COMPLICATIONS
Documented fact sheet about the problems associated with assisted suicide
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
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, assisted suicide, and end-of-life issues)
DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE (Articles and links related to disability rights)
DOUBLE EFFECT
DRUGS USED FOR DOCTOR-PRESCRIBED SUICIDE
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)
FEATURED ARTICLES (Previously featured)
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)
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 ERRORS and MISDIAGNOSIS
MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
- World Medical Association reaffirms its position on euthanasia and assisted suicide. (November 13, 2019)
- “New policy statement on physician-assisted suicide defeated”
American Osteopathic Association rejects proposal to change policy on assisted suicide. (July 31, 2018) - “World Medical Association reiterates strong opposition to physician assisted suicide and to Australian bill”
(October 27, 2017) - 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.
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
NURSING HOMES (See ELDER ABUSE)
OBAMACARE (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)
ORDER FORM for PATIENTS RIGHTS COUNCIL MATERIALS
ORGAN DONATION and ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
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)
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE
PROTECTIVE MEDICAL DECISIONS DOCUMENT
QUALITY OF LIFE (QALY) RATINGS
Schiavo (See: Food and Fluids)
SCOTLAND (See: UNITED KINGDOM)
SUICIDE AWARENESS, CONSEQUENCES & STATISTICS
UNITED STATES
• Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide Measures in the United States (1991-2006).
UNITED STATES SENATE TESTIMONY (5/25/06)
• Marker testimony
• Smith testimony
UPDATE (PRC Newsletter)
VOLUNTARILY STOPPING EATING & DRINKING (VSED)
• Important Questions & Answers about VSED
WORDS USED IN ASSISTED SUICIDE DEBATE
(See Verbal Engineering)
ZURICH DECLARATION
Right-to-die activists declare that “severe and enduring distress” is a justification for assisted suicide and euthanasia