Resources

Texas Death With Dignity

Resources

National Organizations:

Death with Dignity National Center
Compassion & Choice
Final Exit Network

International Organizations:

The World Federation of Right to Die Societies

Please consider subscribing to their regular electronic web site update (see the bottom of the right hand column on their home page.)

DIGNITAS

– To live with dignity – To die with dignity

Books:

  • Modern Death: Howe Medicine Changed the End of Life by Haider Warraich, MD

  • Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD.

  • Memory Lessons: by Dr. Jerald Winakur

  • How To Get the Death You Want by John Abraham

  • Nearing the End of Life: A Guide for Relatives and Friends of the Dying by Sue Brayne and Dr. Peter Fenwick.

  • Being Mortal  by Dr. Atul Gawande

  • Must We Suffer Our Way to Death?: Cultural and Theological Perspectives on Death by Choice / Edited by

  • Ronald P. Hamel & Edwin R. Dubose

  • Physician Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care & Patient Choice / Edited by Timothy E. Quill, M.D. and Margaret P. Battin, PH.D

  • Doctor, Please Help Me Die by Tom Preston, M.D. with Janice Harper, PH.D

  • Death of a Man by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker

  • Death, Dying and Dessert: Reflections on 20 Questions About Dying by Susan Lieberman, Ph.D.

  • Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? by Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald

  • Wisdom From a Chair – Thirty Years of Quadriplegia by Andrew I. Batavia and Mitchell Batavia

  • I’ll See Myself Out, Thank You: Thirty Personal Views in Support of Assisted Suicide, 2015 by Colin Brewer  ed.

  • Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, 2013 by Katy Butler

  • Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying, 1997 by Maggie Callanan  & Patricia Kelley

  • Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life, 2015 by Eric Lindner

  • The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate, 2012 by Demetra M. Pappas

  • A Doctor’s View of Death with Dignity by Hemlock of Illinois

Films:

  • How to Die in Oregon
  • The Farewell Party
  • Dying To Know
    Whose Life Is It Anyway

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