End-of-Life (Subscribe)
Links
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.
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.
Death with Dignity National Center
http://www.deathwithdignity.org
Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/
Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book 'On Death and Dying.' Biography, publications, quotes, and related links.
End-of-life Care
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_4_25.html
End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers.
End-of-Life Decisions
http://www.elca.org/dcs/endoflife.html
This message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America draws attention to end-of-life decisions and encourages action on it.
Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care
http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~ennyman/ethics.html
Articles and essays on patients' rights, Ethics Committees, the Right-to-Die Debate, and Physician Assisted Suicide.
Innovations in End-of-Life Care
This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
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.
On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/
Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S.
Project on Death in America
To understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement
Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State
http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/donal/pvs.htm
Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint.
Rites of Passage
http://www.ktc.net/ritesofpassage/
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.
The End of Life - Exploring Death in America
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/
Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, 'All Things Considered.'
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.