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	Death with Dignity National Center URL: http://www.deathwithdignity.org ODP description: Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying. Page title: death with dignity * dwd Page description: Oregon death with dignity - respect the will of the people. Death with dignity became an end-of-life care option in 1994 with the popular passage of the Oregon law.
	Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State URL: http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/donal/pvs.htm ODP description: Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint. Page title: Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State - an ethical and legal dilemma. Page description: This document was created using ED'S HTML Converter at http://www.creighton.edu/~burma
	Rites of Passage URL: http://www.ktc.net/ritesofpassage/ ODP description: Non-profit agency providing services to people with terminal illnesses; education, videos and training on AIDS and death and dying including works by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Dannion Brinkley.
	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross URL: http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/ ODP description: Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying." Biography, publications, quotes, and related links.
	On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/ ODP description: Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S. Page title: On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying - Home
	Innovations in End-of-Life Care URL: http://www.edc.org/lastacts/ ODP description: This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care. Page title: Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Palliative Practices/Tools. Page description: Journal promoting innovative practices in palliative care for health care professionals caring for dying patients. Current Issue: Designing Postgraduate Training in Palliative Care.
	Last Acts URL: http://www.lastacts.org/ ODP description: Campaign to improve care of the dying by coalition of healthcare professional and consumer organizations. News and discussion on death and dying, reports on palliative care, resource directory, free publications, and e-mail newsletter provided. Page title: RWJF - Newsroom - Features - A Record of Accomplishment in End-of-Life Care Page description: In 2005, Last Acts—a highly acclaimed Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program—came to a close. The program’s Web site, www.lastacts.org, ceased publication at the same time....
	American Psychological Association: End-of-Life Care Issues and Care URL: http://www.apa.org/pi/eol/ ODP description: Report examines the role of psychology and psychologists in end-of-life decisions and quality of care issues. Page title: End-of-Life Care Issues Page description: This report examines the role of psychology and psychologists in end-of-life decisions and quality of care issues.
	Project on Death in America URL: http://www.soros.org/death/ ODP description: To understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement Page title: Project on Death In America
	Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life URL: http://www.iceol.duke.edu ODP description: Seeks to improve care at the end of life through interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and outreach.
	Before I Die URL: http://www.thirteen.org/bid/ ODP description: A PBS program exploring the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today. Features real life stories about people who have faced these personal decisions. Page title: Before I Die: Home Page Page description: Thirteen / WNET, presents BEFORE I DIE, the online component to the PBS program BEFORE I DIE: MEDICAL CARE & PERSONAL CHOICES. The program explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today. The Web companion piece features original reporting by health writer Janet Firshein. Read real life stories about people who have faced these personal decisions, and learn more about the issues. Read opinions,...
	End-of-life Care URL: http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_4_25.html ODP description: End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers. Page description: End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of patients and caregivers
	Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care URL: http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~ennyman/ethics.html ODP description: Articles and essays on patients' rights, Ethics Committees, the Right-to-Die Debate, and Physician Assisted Suicide.
	The Leaving Life Questionnaire URL: http://leavelife.com/ ODP description: A guide to exploring ideas, feelings and experiences related to death and dying, quality of life and suffering, old age,and voluntary euthanasia.
	The End of Life - Exploring Death in America URL: http://www.npr.org/programs/death/ ODP description: Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, "All Things Considered." Page title: End of Life