1.           http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-14/health/kevorkian.gupta_1_kevorkian-class-picture-moment?_s=PM:HEALTH

a.       Interview between Dr. Kevorkian and CNN

b.      "Let me tell you something," his voice trailed off.  "I have no regrets, none whatsoever,"

c.       "The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born."

d.      Does not believe that being a doctor is a Nobel profession

e. He strongly advocates assisted suicide, or euthanasia, or what he calls "patholysis."

                                 i. Path means disease or suffering

                                 ii.  lyses’, means destruction

                                 iii. Patholysis, The destruction of suffering

a.       About Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s life

b.      May 28, 1928 till  March 15, 2000

c.       All  of his court dates

d.      Other relevant information

e.      A few awards won

1.       http://www.nndb.com/people/272/000023203/

a.       Information about Dr. Jack Kevorkian

b.      conducted a study photographing patients' eyes as they died

                                                               i.      established that blood vessels in the cornea contract and become invisible as the heart stops beating

c.       Suggested that death row inmates be euthanized, and their bodily organs harvested.

d.       In 1997 Dr. Kevorkian began tinkering on a suicide machine

e.      Kevorkian then provided services to at least 45 and possibly more satisfied customers.

f.        The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans who want to kill themselves -- but are physically unable to do so -- have no Constitutional right to end their lives.

g.       Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison, but was paroled in 2007, in failing health and nearing his own death.

a.       About death with dignity act

b.      Passed on November 4. 2008

c.       Allows terminally ill patients to choose when to die

d.      Must have less than 6 months to live

e.      The Department of Health will collect reported data, ensure the quality of the data, and provide an annual statistical report

a.       Pros and cons list for assisted suicide

b.      A more in depth reasoning behind each reason

c.       Information about Dr. Jack Kevorkian

d.      Recent laws in Oregon and the U.K.

e.      10 pro and 8 con

a.       19th century, eminent French sociologist Emile Durkheim found suicide rates to be higher in the Protestant compared with the Catholic cantons of Switzerland

b.      Suicide rates

                                                               i.      19.7% Catholics

                                                             ii.      28.5% Protestants

                                                            iii.      39.5% no affiliation

c.       The protective effect of a religious affiliation appears to be stronger in Catholics

d.      stronger in older than in younger people

e.       stronger in women than in men

f.        particularly strong for assisted suicides.   

1.        http://lifegard.tripod.com/index-3.html

a.       Professional ethics

b.      Suicide: an ethical typology

c.       Differences between unassisted, assisted and facilitated

d.      warning on Assisted Suicide

e.      information for doctors 

a.       Focus areas

                                                               i.      Bio ethics

                                                             ii.      Business ethics

b.       Is i8t right or wrong

c.       What really is ethics

d.      Dramatic developments

e.       supporters

1.       http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/us/05suicide.html?_r=2

a.       36 terminally ill died last year after  a.s.

b.      63 people filled prescriptions

c.       Not everyone took it

d.      Some died naturally

e.      In Oregon 59 people died last year

a.       Information state-by-state

b.      9 states allow

c.       Three abolished the common law crimes statutes criminalizing assisted suicide

d.      States where its not a crime

e.      States where PAS is allowed

a.       October 27, 1997

                                                               i.      DWD legalize in Oregon

b.       Allows terminally ill to die

c.       Completely voluntary

d.      Oregon’s DHS collect info about patient

e.      end t lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.

1.       http://www.assistedsuicide.org/

a.       Liberty and Death: A Manifesto

b.      Dr. Kevorkian’s contribution to the right-to-die movement

c.       Why assisted suicide for the mentally ill is so problematic

d.      Assisted suicide laws around the world

e.      What exactly falls under the ‘assisted suicide’   category

1.       http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pas.html

a.       Why is it illegal

b.      Arguments against

c.       Arguments in favor

d.      Is physician aided the same as euthanasia

                                                               i.      No, it is not

e.       What it actually is

1.       http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jul/26/assisted-suicide-christian-nurses-rcn

a.       The Royal College of Nursing's decision to drop its five-year opposition to allowing assisted suicide.

b.      Christian Nurses and Midwives said the RCN's policy shift would send "the wrong signals to the vulnerable".

c.       Populous poll yesterday showed that six out of 10 people questioned wanted friends and relatives to be able to help people who were dying to kill themselves, without fear of prosecution.

d.      Doctors maintained their opposition to assisted suicide following several cases involving the Swiss Dignitas clinic.

e.      Steve Fouch, CNM secretary said that the CNM did not believe that the profession should step back from actively opposing changes to the law.

1.        http://www.masscouncilofchurches.org/docs/doc_suicide.htm

a.       Legislative background

b.      Clarification of terms

c.       The nature of suffering and death

d.      A Christian understanding of humanity

e.      Some stuff about euthanasia

1.       http://www.dredf.org/assisted_suicide/assistedsuicide.html

a.       The 1999 California bill

                                                               i.      A bill to legalize assisted suicide

                                                             ii.      Defeated

                                                            iii.      Group made  up of disability rights organizations, workers, poor people, physicians and other health-care workers, hospice organizations, Catholics, and right-to-life organizations

b.       Reasons DREDF Opposes Legalization of Assisted Suicide

c.       Many  supposed safeguards

d.      Names of organizations against DWD

                                                               i.      A list of the twelve most prominent

e.      List of the major reasons why it should be outlawed

2.       http://www.ca-aas.com/california_Against_Assisted_Suicide_Facts.html

a.       information about assisted suicide

b.      latest news and press releases

c.       more groups that are opposed to assisted suicide

d.      the truth behind the ‘lies’ made by doctors and politicians about assisted suicide

e.      information on getting involved