Media Resources
Below you will find helpful information on aid in dying. Please refer to the Document Database for other news articles, polling information, legal or government documents. If you are a member of the media and have questions, please contact our Director of Media Relations at 800.247.7421 or by email.
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Bios
> To read Barbara Coombs Lee's bio click here (PDF)
> To read Kathryn Tucker's bio click here (PDF)
Medical & Professional Research
Right to Die: Is it too easy to remove life support?, Congressional Quarterly Researcher, May 13, 2005
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Physican-Assisted Suicide: A Conservative Critique of Intervention, Daniel E. Lee, Hastings Center Report.
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Professional Organizations’ Position Statements on Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Case for Studied Neutrality, Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel
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Promoting Good Pain Management in California, Kathryn Tucker, California Health Law News, Summer 2004.
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Report to Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell from the Committees on the Attorney Generals Initiative on End of Life Care, 2004.
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The Oregon Law
Read the Annual Report on Aid in Dying
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At Life's End, New York Times
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Eligibility for Oregon's Law and Timeline of Legal Aid-in-Dying, Compassion In Dying: Stories of Dignity & Choice
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The Challenge to Assisted Suicide in Oregon, Justice Talking, NPR
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Grandma Peggy's Death, Primary Sources. Margaret "Peggy" Sutherland was a Psychoanalyst who took advantage of the Death With Dignity Act. Sutherland's fifteen year old granddaughter, Lindsay Baltus, remembers her grandmother.
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Editorials
Dear Abby Column Prompts Over 25,000 Advance Directive Requests
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Bogus Federalism, Bruce Fein, Washington Times, 06/01/2004
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Choosing Death – Compassion in Dying in Oregon, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 7/14/2004
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Oregon’s Vital Experiment, The Boston Globe, 4/26/2004
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Choice in Life, Choice in Death, Joan Ryan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/10/2003
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Affinity Organizations
An open letter from Professor Daniel Maguire to the Catholic Legislators in California
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Excerpts from Briefs of Respondents and Amici Supporting Respondents
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Read the briefs of amicus curiae in Gonzales v. Oregon et al.
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A Bishop Speaks: John Shelby Spong, “Assisted Suicide: A Christian Choice and a New Freedom”
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Visit PhysicianAidinDying.com, a new website addressed to the religious community advocating the legalization of physician aid in dying
in limited circumstances with strict safeguards
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Unitarian Universalist Association 1988 General Resolution
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Polling
Field Poll, March 15, 2006
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Pew Research Poll, January 5, 2006
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Harris Interactive Poll , April 28, 2005
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