Brave New World

Euthanasia

Laws and Courts

Oregon's Death With Dignity Act

US 96-110 , US 95 1858  Supreme Court cases that discusses "right to die"

Recent 9th Circuit opinion  in Lee v State of Oregon, an Oregon lawsuit attempting to invalidate the Death With Dignity Act

  Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 ,  federal law that tries to prevent physicians in Oregon from carrying out Death With Dignity Act. Beware: this file is sometimes slow to open.

Links to more cases, laws

Reports, etc

American Medical Association policy  on physician assisted suicide

American Pyschological Association working group report  on assisted suicide

American Veterinary Medical Association report  on animal euthanasia

American College of Physicians' A Dying Persons Guide to Dying

American College of Physicians' What to do Before and After the Moment of Death

Beth Israel Hospital End of Life Care Ethical and Legal Issues

Articles  from various medical journals regarding euthanasia

Centers for Disease Control suicide statistics

Link Collections

Euthanasia World Directory from finalexit.org, group that supports euthanasia

Peter Singer, prominent philosopher, supports euthanasia

Brief article defending euthanasia

" Taking Life " excerpt from Practical Ethics

Knowdeep.org collection of online articles and reports

Catholicism and Euthanasia

Medline Plus End of Life  links

Database Searches (work only  on-campus)

Academic Search Elite

InfoTrac  

Jama

Lancet

British Medical Journal

Miscellaneous

Online class discussion  at the University of Southern California on euthanasia