Assisted Suicide & Death with Dignity: Past, Present & Future - Table of Contents

by Rita L. Marker

Table of Contents

PART I

Introduction
Right to Die Organizations
     Oldest U.S. euthanasia organization calls it quits (view)
        • Euthanasia Society of America (view)
        • Spin off: Euthanasia Educational Council (view)
        • New names: Society for the Right to Die and Concern for Dying (view)
        • Reunification: Choice in Dying (view)
        • A kinder gentler image: Partnership for Caring (view)
        • Last Acts as the last act (view)
     From "Hemlock" to "Compassion and Choices" (view)
        • Hemlock (view)
        • Spin off: Americans against Human Suffering (view)
        • ERGO formed (view)
        • Another spin off: Compassion in Dying (view)
        • Expectations of success (view)
        • Hemlock undergoes another "makeover" (view)
        • Caring Friends program (view)
        • New name: End-of-Life Choices (view)
        • Unification: Compassion and Choices (view)
        • Exits (view)
     Final Exit Network (view)
     Death with Dignity National Center (view)
Endnotes for Part I

PART II

Public Opinion
     Polls: Measurement or manipulation (view)
     Oregon as a model (view)
Oregon: The "poster state"
     Official reports do not tell the whole story (view)
     Other troubling aspects of Oregon’s law (view)
Endnotes for Part II

 PART III

International Perspectives
    Australia (view)
        • Death by Laptop (view)
        • "You don’t need a doctor" (view)
    The Netherlands (view)
        • Dutch physicians led the way (view)
        • Euthanasia and assisted suicide legalized (view)
    Belgium (view)
    Other Countries (view)
Conclusion
Endnotes for Part III