Bioethics: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Assisted Suicide

News

Newspaper Source Plus
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Newspaper Research Guide
This guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.

Organizations

Assisted Suicide
An ERGO website dedicated to assisted suicide and the rights of the terminally ill.
Death with Dignity National Center
Organization that leads the defense of the Oregon Death with Dignity Law.
ERGO (Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization)
A pro-euthanasia organization.
Euthanasia.com
A pro-life organization that provides information on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
The World Federation of Right to Die Societies
An international federation consisting of 38 right to die organizations from 23 countries.

About Assisted Suicide

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.

Try searching these terms using the resources linked on this page: assisted suicide, assisted suicide and law*, assisted suicide and ethic*, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, right to die, euthanasia and law*, euthanasia and ethic*, palliative care, euthanasia and religio*

Overview Resources - Background Information

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.
Voluntary Euthanasia
Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on voluntary euthanasia and the arguments for and against it.
CQ Researcher
Contains weekly in-depth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.