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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.
www.apa.org/pi/eol
- Compassion In Action - Photos of people caring for others.
www.twilightbrigade.com
- Death with Dignity National Center - Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying.
www.deathwithdignity.org
- DeathNET - Deals with end-of-life issues and problems from a variety of legal, medical, political, and philosophical perspectives. Includes searchable news archive and student research center.
www.rights.org/deathnet
- End-of-life Care - End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers.
www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_4_25.html
- 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.
www.elca.org/dcs/endoflife.html
- Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care - Articles and essays on patients' rights, Ethics Committees, the Right-to-Die Debate, and Physician Assisted Suicide.
www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~ennyman/ethics.html
- Innovations in End-of-Life Care - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
www.edc.org/lastacts
- Last Acts - Campaign to improve care of the dying by coalition of over 400 professional and consumer organizations. News on death and dying issues, resource center, palliative care reports, institutional innovation, bereavement and grief education.
www.lastacts.org
- 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.
www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms
- Project on Death in America - To understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement
www.soros.org/death
- 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.
www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/donal/pvs.htm
- 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.
www.ktc.net/ritesofpassage
- The End of Life - Exploring Death in America - Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, "All Things Considered."
www.npr.org/programs/death
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