Death Reference Desk

  • Home
  • About
  • Ask a Question!
  • Research Guides
  • Subscribe   
  • Contact 
The death feed is down! :(

 

Death Ref
18 Mar 10, 01:36:43 -0500



Categories

  • Afterlife (6)
  • Burial (17)
  • Cemeteries (12)
  • Cremation (14)
  • Death + Art / Architecture (18)
  • Death + Biology (10)
  • Death + Crime (8)
  • Death + Disaster (5)
  • Death + Humor (14)
  • Death + Popular Culture (20)
  • Death + Technology (18)
  • Death + the Economy (15)
  • Death + the Law (31)
  • Death + the Web (15)
  • Death Ethics (27)
  • Death Ref Questions (2)
  • Defying Death (5)
  • Eco-Death (7)
  • Funeral Industry (18)
  • Grief + Mourning (11)
  • Monuments + Memorials (13)

Archives

  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009

We Like

  • Daily Undertaker
  • Death Care
  • Morbid Anatomy
  • Obit Magazine
  • Pushin Daisies
  • Taphophilia (dot) Com
  • Wikipedia Death Portal

Tags

animals anthropology assisted dying assisted suicide attending your own funeral auctions bio-cremation bioethics books brain death buried alive capital punishment cardiac death celebrity death civil rights coffins columbaria corpse abuse crafts cremains cryonics cults death and smell death masks death meditation death with dignity decomposition definition of death digital archiving Dignitas disease Edward and Joan Downes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Etsy euthanasia Facebook film review foreclosure forensics free speech funeral directors funeral homes funerals games genealogy ghost bikes green burial grief Haiti Earthquake headstones heirs home burial immortality infographics insurance investment Japan jewelry karoshi lecture lifecasting living with the dead marketing mass graves medicine memorializing memorial tattoos mock funerals moment of death mummies mysterious deaths obesity op ed patents pet cemeteries pet loss pets photos plastination podcast premature burial promession protests relationships religion research reusing graves seminars soldiers spiritualism stages of grief statistics stress suicide superstition taxes thanatos twitter unclaimed bodies urns vertical burial video wayward bodies webcasting wills writing

Posts Tagged ‘death with dignity’

Older Entries

Live Free and Die in Montana

16, Jan 2010

Ruling by Montana Supreme Court Bolsters Physician-Assisted Suicide
by Kirk Johnson, New York Times (January 10, 2010)

Last September I posted an article on a Montana man who took his right-to-die case to the Montana State Supreme Court. The case involved 76-year old Robert Baxter who, sadly, died of leukemia before the case made it to the [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted suicide, death with dignity
  • Read More
  • No Comments

New Assisted Dying Guidelines in England

2, Oct 2009

Director of Public Prosecutions Publishes Interim Policy on Prosecuting Assisted Suicide
The Crown Prosecution Service (September 23, 2009)
Last week in England, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, released new guidelines on assisted dying. The goal of these new guidelines is to give family members a clearer understanding of what is acceptable before the law [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, death with dignity
  • Read More
  • No Comments

The Right to Die Free in Montana

4, Sep 2009

Montana Court to Rule on Assisted Suicide Case
Kirk Johnson, New York Times (September 01, 2009)

Since July I have been posting stories on Right-to-Die cases in England. Those posts involved Edward and Joan Downes (who traveled together to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland to die) and Debbie Purdy who successfully fought a campaign to have England’s [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, death with dignity
  • Read More
  • (1) Comment

America and End of Life Care: Death, Dying, and Mortality

22, Aug 2009

At the End, Offering Not a Cure but Comfort
Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times (August 19, 2009)
I started and re-started this post on American Health Care reform several times. To watch America’s current Health Care debate (such as it is…) makes me all the happier that I now live in the UK and am covered [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Economy| Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity, definition of death
  • Read More
  • No Comments

Important Right-to-Die Court Decision in the UK

30, Jul 2009

Debbie Purdy wins ’significant legal victory’ on assisted suicide
Afua Hirsch, The Guardian (July 30, 2009)
An important turn today for UK Assisted Dying supporters (which is about 62% of the public…).
I will let The Guardian newspaper explain:
Debbie Purdy has won a significant legal victory in the House of Lords which lawyers are describing as a turning [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + Crime| Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, death with dignity, Dignitas, Edward and Joan Downes
  • Read More
  • (2) Comments

Older Entries
top

Copyright ®2009 - 2010 Death Reference Desk | Disclaimer | Privacy

Powered by WordPress | Evidens White Theme by Design Disease