Other news sources
Other end-of-life news sources:
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World Right-to-Die Mailing List
Moderated by Derek Humphry, author of Final Exit.
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Exit News and Forum Newsletter
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Friends at the End (FATE)
Here are sources of background information I have found useful in
interpreting the news:
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Death:
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Few people know much about death, and very few of those
write about it. In the book How We Die, surgeon Sherwin
Nuland shows us a typical progression to death for six
people in different circumstances.
<Book entry
at Amazon>.
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Vocabulary:
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The right-to-die movement sometimes talks an unfamiliar
language. Derek
Humphry's Glossary web page can help.
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Right and wrong:
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Ethical claims are cheerfully flung around by all parties in
the right-to-die debate. In the book Medically Assisted
Death, Robert Young visits almost all the various claims,
analyzing them in clear language. Young is Reader in
Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
<Book entry
at Amazon>.
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Arguments - Errors & Omissions:
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People usually argue a case badly, and they do worse when
emotions run high. On
this web page
entitled Ion Effects, Ruth von Fuchs outlines the most
common mistakes and maneuvers used in arguments against the
right to die. Von Fuchs is the President of the
Right to Die Society of Canada.
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Who is who:
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There are a few dozen right-to-die organizations in the
world, and it takes a veteran like Derek Humphry to track
them. This is not one big happy family. His book, The
Good Euthanasia Guide, gives the rundown on the lot, and
then gives an overview of movement events in the past 20
years.
<Book
page at ERGO>.
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Web sites for the Newbie:
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Most effective short story:
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Published in The Journal Of the American Medical Association
in January of 1988 (Thanks to
Prof. William
Bondeson):
