More Resources
We have put together a few resources to help address the issue of physician assisted suicide. We also have information on end-of-life choices, suicide prevention, as well as resources for caregivers.
Please check back to this page, as we will be updating these resources periodically.
More information on assisted suicide:
Spotlight on Oregon, from the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) assisted suicide page
DREDF's position statement against legalization
Op Ed, "Why Progressives Should Oppose the Legalization of Assisted Suicide"
Op Ed, "What You Don't Know Can Kill You" (April 2007)
New York Task Force on Life and the Law - one-page statement of The Risks of Legalization
"Failed Attempts to Legalize Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide in the United States" from the International Task Force (Updated May 2007)
ARTICLE by Dr. Herbert Hendin from the Psychiatric Times (February 2004)
TESTIMONY by Dr. N. Gregory Hamilton about the lack of protections for people with mental illness in Oregon (December 2004)
TESTIMONY by Dr. Henry (Rex) Greene against legalization (February 2006)
CHART: "Oregon: Theory Vs. Practice," originally from Vermont coalition website (Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care) (January 2007)
"Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective"by Herbert Hendin and Kathleen Foley. This article, published in the Michigan Law Review, examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. It makes explicit suggestions and is a very thoughtful review of the Oregon Experience. (June 2008)
"Prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients requesting physicans' aid in dying: cross sectional survey" by Linda Ganzini, Elizabeth R. Goy and Steven K. Dobascha. This article from the British Medical Journal concludes that one out of four terminally ill patients who request a prescription for a lethal overdose under Oregon's landmark assisted suicide law may suffer from depression. (Oct. 7, 2008)