Overview - Assisted Suicide: An Undergraduate Research Guide - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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This Research Guide provides resources related to the medical, legal and ethical issues of assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is an active form of euthanasia, while passive euthanasia ("the right to die") involves withholding of life support so that a terminally ill patient may die a natural death.

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Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
Information on ethical, legal, and religious issues and the status of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in the U.S. and other countries around the world.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
Public Agenda Issue Guides: Right to Die
Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research and civic engagement organization, presents public opinion and arguments for and against the right to die.
Voluntary Euthanasia
Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on voluntary euthanasia and the arguments for and against it.

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