| ABOUT THE
INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE
ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
• Advance Directive Definitions
•
"Be Prepared"
• Do You Need an Advance Directive?
•
Noncompliance with Advance Directives
• Protecting Yourself and Your Family
• Protective Medical Decisions Document
ALASKA
Court case challenging Alaska's law prohibiting assisted suicide
"ARTIFICIAL FEEDING" (See FOOD AND FLUIDS)
ARIZONA
ASSISTED SUICIDE AND COST
CONTAINMENT
ASSISTED SUICIDE & DEATH
WITH DIGNITY: Past, Present & Future
ASSISTED SUICIDE - IMPACT ON MINORITIES
AND THE POOR
ASSISTED SUICIDE: Not for Adults only?
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and
teens
ASSISTED SUICIDE - REASONS
•
"'We never
say no;' The right-to-die movement abandons pretense"
"ASSISTED SUICIDE: The Continuing
Debate" (139 K)
AUSTRALIA
BOOKS AND AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS
• Deadly Compassion relates the
tragic death of Ann Humphry, the co-founder of the Hemlock Society, and the dark side of
the euthanasia movement around the world.
• Euthanasia: False Light is a 14-minute award winning
video that raises thought provoking questions about euthanasia.
• Forced Exit offers chilling evidence of just how
powerful and dangerous the death culture in America has become and offers a clear-eyed,
realistic exploration of one of the most important and wrenching ethical issues of our
time.
• Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You
Need
(contact International Task Force for
information and availability.)
CALIFORNIA
CANADA
CARING FRIENDS
CHILDREN and TEENS
Proposals for permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide for children and
teens
COMPLICATIONS
Documented fact sheet about the problems associated with assisted
suicide
COST CONTAINMENT
• Killing
patients proposed as cost cutting (Review of Freedom to Die) (4/99)
• Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment
COURT CASES (Also
see individual cases by name)
ENGLAND
EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED
SUICIDE & HEALTH CARE DECISIONS: PROTECTING YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY
• Table of Contents
• Part 1
• Part 2
"EUTHANASIA:
FALSE LIGHT" (video)
EXOO
FACT SHEETS
• Advance Directives
Advance Directive Definitions
Protective Medical Decisions Document
• Florida
Facts about the 1997 challenge to Florida's law against assisted suicide
• Holland
Facts about euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands
• Kevorkian
Activities, background and goals of Jack Kevorkian
• Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law
Background and continuing information about Oregon's law permitting assisted suicide
• Statistics
Statistics related to death, dying, euthanasia and assisted suicide
• Words, Words, Words
Terms used in the euthanasia debate - their use and abuse
This is a 31 page document
FOOD AND FLUIDS
Includes Questions and Answers about
"Artificial Feeding" and information about specific cases
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Answers to most common questions
GONZALES
v. OREGON
Facts, overview, amicus curiae briefs.
HAWAII
HEMLOCK and CARING FRIENDS
HOLLAND
"HOW TO"
Methods to commit suicide promoted by euthanasia activists. (Also see: Caring Friends)
INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE UPDATE
Full Text of Updates from 1/96 through current edition
IRELAND
KEVORKIAN
(Background, goals, activities, and known victims of Jack Kevorkian
LIBRARY
• Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment
• Reports
When Death is Sought
1994 NY State Task Force Report on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
When Death is
Sought 1997 Supplement
• Suicide Prevention
Suicide Awareness Information about suicide and
depression
• Zurich Declaration Activists declare
"distress" is justification for induced death (10/98)
LINKS to Disability Rights, Government, Law, News, Pain Control
Living Will (See: Advance Directives)
MAINE
"METHODS" to commit suicide promoted by euthanasia
activists. (Also see: Caring Friends)
MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
MINORITIES AND THE POOR
Inequity in health care and its implications for assisted suicide.
MONTANA
NITSCHKE
ORDER FORM for INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE
MATERIALS
OREGON
OREGON v. ASHCROFT
PATIENT COMFORT AND CONTROL ACT
POWER OVER PAIN: How to Get
the Pain Control You Need
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE
PROTECTIVE MEDICAL DECISIONS DOCUMENT
Schiavo (See: Food and Fluids)
SHOW AND TELL
Assisted Suicide Activists Push Gadgets, Masks and Gas Devices
SINGER, PETER
SITE SEARCH ENGINE
STATISTICS
UNITED STATES
• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide proposals (2007)
• Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide Measures in the United States
(1991-2006).
UNITED STATES SENATE TESTIMONY (5/25/06)
• Witness list
•
Coleman testimony
• Marker testimony
• Smith testimony
UPDATE
(ITF Newsletter)
VERMONT
WASHINGTON
WISCONSIN
WORDS USED IN ASSISTED SUICIDE DEBATE
• "When
Killing Yourself Isn't Suicide" Word games played in
assisted-suicide debate (from National Review)
• "Words, Words, Words" Originally appeared in Duquesne Law Review as
"The Art of Verbal Engineering."
WYOMING
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