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- 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.
- Conscious Living Conscious Dying: Aims to raise community awareness of death and dying. Holds workshops on the physical, emotional and spiritual care of the dying.
- Death with Dignity National Center: Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying." Biography, publications, quotes, and related links.
- End-of-Life Decisions: This message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America draws attention to end-of-life decisions and encourages action on it.
- End-of-life Care: End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers.
- Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care: 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 Death and the Dying Process: Provides information, links, and book reviews that deal with death and the dying process.
- On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying: Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S.
- Partnership for Caring: A national, nonprofit organization devoted to raising consumer expectations for better end-of-life care. Includes information for those interested in end-of-life planning. Advanced directives for all U.S. states can also be downloaded.
- 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: Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint.
- Rites of Passage: 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: 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.
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